Word: pious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fitch said that youth is not primarily interested in the science of religion, that it does not want to be pious. It does want to be brave, clean, honest, and useful. It does, behind a deep and shy reserve, revere itself, its Maker, and its brethren. Here is a youth's conscious idea of his religion; that as boyhood ends, character must begin; that as manhood is consummated, capacity to serve must be its essential witness...
...summer students conference is now being made up in the College, and I should be grateful, if, in the light of my own undergraduate attitude towards Northfield, you would permit me to say a word concerning it. As a student I thought of Northfield as an ultra-pious place, which promoted an abnormally emotional and provincial religious life. I exaggerated the conservatism of its theology and minimized the sincerity and wholesomeness of its spirit. After graduating I declined to go to Northfield as a speaker until last year, when I went with some misgivings and reluctance. But I then discovered...