Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Until about six years ago nothing was known of the religion of the people of the first dynasties. Every dead person had a double, which was subject to hunger, fatigue and mortality. The double was very similar to the manes of the Romans and food and raiment was set aside to appease their wants. One of the first laws was that without divine help man could rise above animal brutishness...
About 200 men heard Prof. Drummond's talk in Sever 11 last evening. The talk lasted for about forty-five minutes and was intensely interesting. The lecturer said that he wished me to take religion on a firm basis and not make it an emotional matter. Such religion does not last. If the grand religion of Christ is put before men in the right way it needs no argument. Men would accept it at once without urging. He wished to speak of two subjects briefly. First, the intellectual difficulty which men meet with in religion. This difficulty must be settled...
...offered last evening of hearing Prof. Henry Drummond of Edinburgh University on the subject of Christianity among students, and Holden Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. After the singing of a hymn, Professor Drummond introduced Dr. Smith of the Scotch delegation, who told of the gradual growth of religion in the Scotch Universities. Several years ago it would have been impossible to hold a religious meeting at Edinburgh University. Now they have services and meetings, especially in the hospitals, where the medical students often go and hold short services with the patients. This was a great step, but more...
...most earnestly on the subject of Christianity. He had not come here to preach, but to help-to try to remove the misconception in men's minds in regard to Christianity. In most American colleges, men don't know much about Christianity. In Scotland they are brought up on religion and see more of the questions which puzzle American students. Christ's yoke is no bondage as many men think. What is a yoke for? A yoke is a wooden collar intended to lighten the ox's burden. So Christ's yoke is put upon us to help...
...life, to the occasions to be made on leaving college. What should a man do with his latest? Ambition may urge him on. Sut the highest ambition is to serve others and minister to them, and this is what Christianity teaches. The danger comes from the chance that intellectual religion may take the place of moral religion and leave it standing. This cannot be and good come of it. Let the intellectual considerations have their place, and they but add to the man's Christianity by giving him stimulants and aid. But do not let them gain the mastery...