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...preached a sermon that held throughout the attention of his hearers. His text was from the twenty-third chapter of Matthew; "Be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." In this text are found the three doctrines that govern the progress of humanity, the rise of democracy, the history of Christianity, three developments dependent upon one another. These doctrines are that we have one "Master, even Christ," that no man is master, that all men are brethren...
...however, perfect brethren, for we have the problems of immigration, of labor, that the gap between rich and poor may not be widened. We are not bound together as brothren, until we can have a democracy industrially. Government, too, is still to progress to a power of common, fraternal control. We have passed from despotism to individualism and are on our way to fraternalism...
...past few years the Phi Beta Kappa at Yale has been a non active society, but this year it is proposed that the society devote it self to a study of the problems connected with the progress and success of American political and social institutions...
...prize of $100 has been offered by Mr. William G. Low to the students of Columbia for the best essay on "The History and Progress of Civil Service Reform in the National, State, and Local Governments of the United States...
...imply that man belongs to the universe as one of the masters of the universe. In the New Testament it says that man is the son of God, and it is not because the Puritan believed this but because he worked for it, that he made his progress. In those days whatever the duty of the man was he went to it with the spirit that it was to glorify...