Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year. Among them are plans for the sailors' mission, the Chinese Sunday School, a boys' club, and weekly visits to some of the regular Boston missions. A course of study in foreign missions of the present day will be described, and all who are interested in this, the greatest movement of the Christian church, are urgently invited to attend...
...profession will be likely to call for or favor. No unfamiliarity with charities, no doubt as to his own capacity for such work, no lack of striking qualifications of peculiar talents, no doubt or uncertainty of any kind, need deter any student who feels the impulse that underlies this movement from calling upon the director...
...October 10, the United Religious Societies and the Student Volunteer Movement of the University will hold a joint meeting in the Fogg Art Museum to set before the students, and especially the new students, the advantages, needs, aims and claims of religious and philanthropic work in and around the University. Feeling that the work in which they are interested is of the greatest concern, not only to the University itself, but also to the community in which it is placed, they have asked men of influence and eminence to make the work known to the students. President Eliot will preside...
First among the deeper aspects he sees the demand for the idealist. On the surface it seems just the opposite, but beneath it in the deeper movement of the inner life through which God has guided every age, he sees that if there is anything manifest it is the inadequacy of the material life...
There never was a time when there was such a searching for new religions and philosophy. There is beginning to stir a new movement in philanthrophy, education and religion. When the historian of a later age comes to sum this up he will call it a great revival of idealism. This is a sign for the university man of today...