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...infrequently the spiritual overflow is lacking. A man may have come of the noblest Puritan stock and have inherited the spiritual vigor of a long line of good men, but unless he is careful of his inheritance he will lose it. If his profession or business leaves him no time for spiritual development he grows weak and perhaps falls before temptations that would have been powerless, had he kept the health and strength that were his birthright. A man will gain the power to pass unharmed through temptation if he will put himself in communion with great men and deeds...
Assistant-Professor Wendell has just published a new work entitled, "Cotton Mather - the Puritan Priest" - in the Makers of America series...
...believe him to have been a pupil of the school of which his father was a governor-there was a later literature as well as a later history associated with St. Saviour's and the Bankside that a youth intended for the church even then, and maybe possessing budding Puritan principles, may not have been unconscious of; while those evidences which lay about him might have given some strain to his devotional instincts. The upholders of the mimic scene were quite as striking figures in the boy's memory of what in Southwark he may have seen and must have...
...Winsor's last letter from London to the Nation treats of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the old Puritan college where John Harvard took his degree. All traces of the college buildings as they stood in John Harvard's day have disappeared with the exception of one of the old outer walls. The green quadrangle seemed to call for a Statue of John Harvard such as now stands on the Delta. All that Emmanuel College has in the way of an effigy of Harvard is a stained glass figure in one of the refectory windows. This compares very poorly in dignity with...
...Dudleian lecture this evening marks an epoch in the religious history of Harvard and serves to make plain the tendency of American colleges toward non-sectarianism. We have no doubt that the Puritan founder of the series would be amazed at the prospect of a Roman Catholic delivering a lecture in this course, but now-a-days we feel ourselves able to listen to the words of both creeds, sure that we shall discern the truth. The course has been established many years; it has always attracted renowned men and been followed with great interest...