Word: repell
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...then briefly on the moral side of religion. A man can never get rid of temptation. Kill the temptation or it will kill you. In the first place, temptation is no sin, Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is not. Secondly, temptation is invaluable, no man can be a man unless he is tempted and that often. Practice makes a man a good Christian. Make temptation a continual means of grace, and you are on the right road. Religion consists in living. Who is going to begin this life? Consider...
...members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these it tends to deaden rather than to stimulate and enliven an interest in religion. But there is good ground for a belief that compulsion tends to repel students who are not Christians and to harden their hearts...
...fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion really does not attract, but does repel, those for whose good it is exerted; if it tends to confirm in the irreligious their opposition, and to send them out into the world with - in many cases - a deep-seated aversion for such religious services as they have been forced to attend, is it not folly to maintain such...
...graduate who declared that in four years he had heard enough prayers and sermons to last a lifetime, and that he would never again put his head inside a church. Would it not be better to incline such students toward religious observances by example and persuasion than to repel them by compulsion...
...that we do not admire the style of youth sans vim, sans enthusiasm, who would be a model in this modern school. The typical young man is enthusiastic, manly and generous, and a policy that destroys the material for class historians and crushes class enthusiasm and college precedent, will repel him from our doors. Our college authorities seem at present to be making an energetic bid for the Oberlin style of student, from which we beg leave to be delivered...