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Twenty-six different churches are represented in the University according to statistics compiled from the Phillips Brooks House register. Of 1898 men who registered from the College, 1311, or 69 per cent., are members of Christian denominations; 142, or 7 per cent., are of non-Christian churches; and 445, or 24 per cent., are unprofessed...
...sacramental idea has been so much bound up with the life of the Christian Church that it seems quite unwarrantable to omit it and reserve the other supernatural elements. In this respect, as in the belief in the immortality of the soul, there is no middle path to choose, for Christianity defies all attempts to compromise with any of the humanitarian or ethical codes. A man is either a Christian or a non-Christian in his beliefs...
There are two tempers of mind found both in the Christian and the non-Christian faiths, the world-accepting and the world-renouncing tempers. The believer who accepts the world as a revelation of God and who finds in every human act and relation a deep meaning, believes in a better world because of the very incompleteness of this world. The nonbeliever looks forward to death because it closes all, and the believer because it does not. In the world-accepting view the believer tries to find God's will for man and following it he finds that...
...issue between the Christian and the non-believer in the supernatural is clearly drawn. There is irreconcilable conflict between scientific fatalism and the postulates of the Christian faith. The world is a different place according as it is viewed from a Christian or a non-Christian standpoint, and no amount of mutual sympathy can bring these views together. The Christian believes that our acts are not all determined by natural physical forces. We are more than parts of nature,--we are something beyond it. In spite of the materialistic tendency of the modern world, the great mass of people leans...
...most impressive sessions to the Harvard delegation was that of Thursday evening, when Bishop Gailor of Tennessee spoke on the subject "Is Christianity the Only Absolute Religion," and Mr. Robert E. Speer discussed the question "Are non-Christian Religions Adequate to Meet the Needs of Men?" The meeting of greatest general interest was that of Friday evening, when the speakers were the British Ambassador, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Hon. John W. Foster, ex-Secretary of State, Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and Hon. J. A. Macdonald, editor of the Toronto Globe...