Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next reading was from the second soras of the Medina period. In it is described the religion of Abraham, which the prophet professed to restore. He argues that the religion of Abraham antedates all others, and is therefore entitled to the preference. In the same suramany of the civil and religious laws are defined. Those in regard to charity are really praiseworthy...
...this studio foundation consists in the doctrines of the relation of God to man, and in the doctrine of true christian conduct, or as Paul puts it, "the Lord knoweth them that are His," and "Let everything that nameth Christ depart from iniquity." Character without creed, ethics without religion, one side of the cornerstone without the other, the other, the apostle says, is impossible: they are both the same thing, looked at from a different point of view...
...broader lessons from the thought, Dr. Tucker spoke of the effect of the principle upon the judgment, upon the conscience, and upon the work of the spirit of God in men. In closing he urged that there be more of quality and less of quantity in our religion, that we drop the seeming and stand forth as we really...
...Izdubar epic seems to be a solar myth and contains as an episode a deluge story practically the same as in the book of Genesis. There are also tablets recording the adventures of the goddess of love, the story of creation and the wars of the god. From the religion of the people come many tablets with hymns and psalms to the gods, some of the psalms having passages strikingly similar to the Biblical psalms. The theological system, with its greater gods and its demons, can be pretty thoroughly made out. In the sciences, especially mathematics and astronomy, considerable progress...
...script and the language are now well known. The working out of the nicer details of the grammar, the enlargement of our knowledge of the vocabulary, the discovery and publication of new books, the interpretation of the multitude of facts contained in the Babylonian books regarding early history, religion and art-these are the delightful tasks before the students of today...