Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...congress of clergymen of all denominations. When this proposal was made public it received the support both of the Oxford Church influence, consisting of Cardinals Manning, Newman and others, and of the broad church, comprising men like Arnold and Dean Stanley. The very general and active desire for social reform was also a great aid to the movement. The Conference was necessarily held abroad on account of the social prejudices which exist between denominations in England. The chief cause of these divisions is ignorance of one another and of one another's beliefs; knowledge of others is necessary to union...
...Jesus show his pity for the poor, their hunger, their ignorance, and their lack of leaders? He had no patent remedy, no ingenious social reform schemes. He said: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
...than in any previous year. Men and women are now busily engaged by a desire to reach out and help those who are not so well off as themselves. Mechanical philanthropy is no longer of use. The new spirit of change is marked by the incessant efforts towards the reform of our politics which characterized the end of the past year...
...poet, though to many persons he means little in this character. In his verse he cares only to sing of the beautiful things of tragedy and pathos, without trying to teach; while in his prose he is ever intent upon teaching. In his essays his great aim is to reform the Philistine. Another guise in which Matthew Arnold appears to us is as the gentle critic of pure literature; the reader and the commentator of the best things, which he wished to see prevail. In this character he wrote his essay on Keats, which gives such pleasure to lovers...
Modern Language Conference. Spelling Reform and the French Academy. Dr. Marcou. Sever...