Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young Siamese, who is a students at Williams and who proposes to return to his country as a missionary, said recently at a meeting in New York. "Buddhism is a religion of morality, but I can say from experience that Christianity has all the morality of Buddhism, and more...
...have heard much of indifference to religion at Harvard, but we have bided our time, waiting for something to prove the falsity of the accusation. And it seems to us that the proof is at hand. If we go to morning chapel, vesper services, or Sunday evening services in Appleton Chapel, we see large numbers of Harvard students: but to anyone who saw the gathering in the Globe Theatre on Sunday evening, the feeling must have come that there is more religion down deep in the hearts of Harvard men than the world has given us credit for. We trust...
...hope that the revival which Harvard is undergoing this year-the life-current which is increasing her activity in athletics, in daily work, in religion-will soon sweep away this very considerable evil, and that we shall realize more fully what a duty and what a power lies in the bond which binds us together here as fellow-students and fellow...
...kind to her in her tender years have let her go at last-somewhat reluctantly. She knows, meanwhile, that she could not have passed her boyhood without their help, and her relations with them are sure to remain kindly. There is no talk here of the conflict of religion and science. Nobody here gives the name "religion" to that dead forest of theology whose dry limbs are cracking and falling with every vigorous wind that stirs. And nobody has done more than the clergy to free old Harvard from certain false theories as to study which fettered her young feet...
...Stephen D. Pete read a paper entitled "Animal Worship in the East and West Compared." The prevalence of animal worship is very widespread in ancient religions. The custom is a very old one; it is a form of universal religion and a connecting link between pre-historical and historical times. Among the animals thus worshipped the hare plays a prominent part. The historical connection between different countries is not sufficient to account for this great prevalence. The worship of animals passes through all the stages of development of the human race...