Word: religione
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...peace among all people. After a hymn sung by the congregation, Prof. Harris gave out the text from St. Matthew, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This was humanitarianism. A comparison of unreligious and Christian humanitarianism would be the subject of the sermon. Humanitarianism not based on religion claimed for itself a higher usefulness than that which was based on religion. For it tolerated no waste in worship, a priesthood and other religious forms; but all its energies were directly bent to the aid and improvement of man. Furthermore it gave liberty to man, requiring him to be bound...
...fellow-men was moreover a Christian idea; and however much men outside of the faith may have equalled or surpassed Christians in the development of this principle, still the church had always repented such remissness to what had always been a fundamental part of its doctrine. Religion-less humanitarianism could offer as a motive nothing more than a sense of the wrongs of humanity. Christianity had as its motive the stirring belief - the divinity of each human soul. The power of Christian humanitarianism lay in its threefold presentation - by the Gospel, Preaching and the Church. Christianity had proved...
...doubled; the size of the classes has increased from about one hundred to very nearly three; and the great elective system, broadening, expanding and enlightening the minds and purposes has been brought to a state of perfection which Yale and Princeton must follow, or be worse distanced than now. Religion is no longer forced upon the students, who are left to form their religious convictions with mature thought, and not to imbibe early in life a feeling of hostility and contempt for all religion. Perhaps it is to be deplored that Harvard's proximity to Boston tends to inculcate...
...large part of the thoughtful public, have manifested great interest in the enterprise; because they see men of eminence belonging to four different communions, meeting on broad, common ground, and sinking their differences as to non essentials, that they may try to do good work for morality and religion in a field of peculiar difficulty and importance...
...contemporaries were optimists, but his modern disciples are materialists, and would apply the cold, inexorable laws of supply and demand to all industrial relations, excluding entire considerations of ethics and sentiment. This, too, discredits Christianity. It would bar Christ out from the kingdom of business and hand religion over to women and children. We are encouraged by the fact that the best political economists to-day reject this materialistic theory and teach a doctrine in closest harmony with Christian ethics. The lecturer proceeded to state some principles of action which may assist the advance among the common people...