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...first lecture Professor Zueblin, dwell on the importance of individuality in a man's religion. In the second and third lectures he spoke of the broad realm of orthodoxy and of the modern decay of authority, and at the next lecture he took up the responsibility of the church in its effects on the happiness of a perfect moral society. Last Monday Professor Zueblin said that the great trouble of our modern life is its fragmentary character and that the best way of securing the wholeness of life is to satisfy these six great wants of human society: wealth, health...
Professor Zueblin maintained in his first lecture that the great essential of a man's religion is its well-marked individuality, and set forth the chief agencies that are instrumental in moulding a child's cenception of religion. In the following two lectures the broad realm of orthodoxy, which even extends to politics, social customs, and economics, was forcefully propounded, and the decay of authority was made evident by examples of the power of the parent over the child, the husband over the wife, and employer over the employee. Dwelling on the responsibility of the church last Monday, Professor Zueblin...
Professor Zueblin showed that orthodoxy was not confined to the realm of religion but was to be met with in politics, social customs, economics and other walks of life. In religion it shows itself as devotion to accepted tenets of belief, in politics as party loyalty, in social customs as race prejudice and alienation, and in economics as class consciousness...
...said, it is a hope which reason compels our mind to adopt. Predominant over all matter we find that curious, spiritual thing called personality. Love, dreams of power, music, intellectual activities-abstract qualities which one cannot buy, see, not touch-all denote that we move in a spiritual realm. If these personal qualities-which distinguish man from animals-are spiritual, and therefore immortal, why should not persons be? To one who considers all the great minds and intellectual geniuses which the world has produced, skepticism is less satisfactory than the opposite view. Dying flowers rise again to fruit; decaying vegetable...
...lectures will probably be divided into the following two classes: "The Social Question in the United States," and "The Christian Character in the Modern World." The lectures will be an application of ethical theory to the social problems of the present day, dealing with subjects not only within the realm of sociology but also in that of economics, but treating them with emphasis on the moral aspects of the social situation and on the philosophy of society involved...