Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The abolition of the compulsory system here was hailed by the faculty and students alike as a step toward true worship. It was a recognition of the truth that observance of mere forms is meaningless. Whoever attends chapel now, attends it with the true religious spirit and whatever faith a...
...three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Emmanuel College, which occurred a few years ago a certain professor showed a ring given by Elizabeth to one of his ancestors who had been a professor at Emmanuel, in appreciation of the old Englishman's devotion to the cause of Protestantism. [Applause.] Although Cambridge always keeps its doors open to all who may wish to come, I can say for Emmanuel that none are more welcome there than those who have gained an education at University of John Harvard. [Prolonged applause...
So far our form of government has succeeded so well, because nationalities and sects have yielded to a certain extent in matters of peculiar customs and belief. If the church segregates its children from the rest of the community, if it causes them to regard this government as protestant and...
But the great complaint at present in this matter is one resulting from sectarian feelings. Catholics, or Jews are afraid to send their children to school where protestant religious forms are observed, and vice versa. The plan of having separate religious exercises for the different factions in the schools does...
History 1 has begun the study of Seebohm's " Era of the Protestant Revolution."