Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attendance was present. The question for debate was, Resolved. That the Parochial School System is dangerous to American institutions. The vote on the merit of the question was taken. The result was, affirmative, 34; negative, 16. Mr. Platt, '88, was the first speaker for the affirmative. He contended that religion and education should be kept free from each other. Education belongs alone to the State and does not concern the church. If the parochial school system were adopted, the influence of the Catholic clergy would be exerted in compelling men to send their children to the parochial schools instead...
...first step in their further education and advancement. The orders issued in regard to this do not as yet affect the preaching of the gospel in the churches, nor in any way hamper the missionaries in their efforts to give the tribes a knowledge of the Christian religion. But it is insisted upon that the schools established for the education of the younger generations shall teach the language of the country of which their pupils will become citizens. Each year the number of those wishing a higher education is increasing, and the question of college education for Indian young...
...December number of the Harvard Monthly will contain an article by Mr. Evert Jansen Wendell on athletics. Professor I. G. Peabody's "Religion in a University" will be reserved for a later number...
...average man. A man before he enters college is not awake to the intellectual side of life. During his college course he usually looks mainly at the intellectual side. So a man in college naturally doubts. But there are other things in life than reason. Theology and religion are very different. Theology solves the problems, but religion is for one's life, whether a man live well or ill. Then give up the insolvable problems, no one can solve them. And if you have doubts, do not try to settle them yourself, turn to the authorities. If a man meets...
...then briefly on the moral side of religion. A man can never get rid of temptation. Kill the temptation or it will kill you. In the first place, temptation is no sin, Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is not. Secondly, temptation is invaluable, no man can be a man unless he is tempted and that often. Practice makes a man a good Christian. Make temptation a continual means of grace, and you are on the right road. Religion consists in living. Who is going to begin this life? Consider...