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Bishop Gailor, the first speaker, whose subject was "The South," said that in a century whose greatness lay in its discoveries, the greatest discovery of all was that of the nation itself, not as a mere collection of individuals, but in its national character. Every problem in national life is a moral question and therefore ultimately a religious problem. There can be no anthithesis between politics and religion because the nation is bound to the same Almighty as the individual. The great ideals, social and political, are the Christian ideals, not that others have not had ethical insight, but because...
Bishop Mackay-Smith then spoke on "The East." Its problems he said, were much the same as those of the rest of the country, but somewhat harder owing to the fact that here the separation between man and man socially is greater than in other parts of the country, and whatever hinders the approach of one man's heart to another's, tends to retard Christian civilization. A second tendency which adds to the difficulty of problems in the East is the mad rush of city life which is more acute here than in the West. A third problem...
World Today--"Boston's Solution of the Rapid Transit Problem," by F. W. Coburn '91; "The New Country Life," by P. H. Boynton '98; "The Great River: The Mississippi Valley in War," by J. K. Hosmer '55; "The Evolution of the Strawberry," by W. H. Burke M.'99; "Standardizing Railroad Time," by H. D. Jones...
...problem, Dr. Osler said, is so great as that which Job expressed in the words "If a man die, shall he live again?" The physician's work lies on the confines of the shadowland. He sees that dying and men in the fear of death, and learns of their hopes and fears as regards the life hereafter...
...conclusion, Dr. Osler addressed the young men particularly, and advised that each should meet the problem alone. The heart is a better guide than the mind in such matters, and our reason does not lead us so well as our natural instinct. The one is capable only of perplexing us, while the other gives us hope of life eternal...