Word: religion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...policy of printing one of the sermons preached in Appleton Chapel during the month preceding publication. Many College men give the impression that they dislike to be caught reading a sermon. Certainly few look for one in an illustrated magazine. Dr. Fitch's recent sermon on "Youth and Religion" made a deep impression on those who heard it, and if the Illustrated can tempt any non-church goers to the furtive perusal of such a sermon in the seclusion of their studies, it will be one more distinct contribution to the value of undergraduate journalism at Harvard...
...third of the series of Hyde lectures in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon, M. Boutroux took as his subject "The Essence of Religion," and discussed its various phases...
...Religion is not coextensive with ecclesiastical institutions, nor with traditions, nor with belief in supernatural beings, nor with faith alone; it does not consist of such philosophical doctrines as the doctrine of God and immortality: religion grows out of the consciousness of a disproportion between our destiny and our powers; it aims at overcoming that disproportion by uniting our inner being with some person more perfect and more powerful. Thus religion implies faith, love of some greater being, endowed, like ourselves, with consciousness and will...
...Emile Boutroux will give the third Hyde lecture under the auspices of the Cercle Francais in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The subject will be "The Essence of Religion"; it will be given in French, and will be open to the public. The last Hyde lecture will be on next Tuesday, and its subject will be "The Contemporary Philosophical Movement in France...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. III. "L'essence de la religion." M. Emile Boutroux. New Lecture Hall...