Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening, Appleton Chapel was well filled with students and Cambridge people to hear Professor Drummond, of the Edinburgh University, deliver his address. It was distinctly a practical view of religion and religious work that is going on to day in Edinburgh, and which the movers are trying to start elsewhere. Three years ago the active work as started by meetings held on Sunday evenings under the directions of students, and the chief object has been the reconciling of intellectual and moral religion and the leading of a religious life in the university. The workers want the aid of those...
Christiamty in three ways upon life. It leavens it, because it raises man and his surroundings out of the earthly considerations that engulf him; it is the half of life, because through its influence the life of cities is preserved. London and New York have places where religion has not come, and these are festering and rotten. It is the light of life, because by Christianity we may see the way to the real life to come...
...students of the University, as a whole, have accepted the responsibility toward religion which the voluntary system has laid upon them. In addition to the work of the religious societies, class prayer-meetings have been undertaken, and we are encouraged to believe that no young man need miss religious influence among us for lack of companionship or sympathy. On the other hand, we entirely appreciate that a considerable number of students have lived this year without any relation to our work, and we take the liberty of urging parental advice for our assistance. The religious life of the College cannot...
...life of self-command to be attained? Only through the religious life. And what is the substance of religion? The sum of the religious life, the preacher said, is faith. This does not means, as we so often hear it said, a system of belief, but a loyalty to a person, a soldierly obedience to God. It is only through this loyalty and subordination that our lives receive that power which enables them to exert power over those we seek to command...
...gratifying to learn of the establishment of class prayer-meetings in the University. We understand that these meeting are not for men of any particular belief or denomination, but for all men in college which feel an interest in religion, whatever their sectarian views may be. We believe that there is a place in the University for such meetings, for although the Y. M. C. A. and St. Paul's Society are helpful to many, there are doubtless many men in college who are truly religious, and who feel the need of some religious association with their fellows...