Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lang's Myth Ritual and Religion, 2 vols., $3.50, published...
...Mohammedan church is divided into 73 sects, which differ from each other in church government and ritual and also in regard to the doctrines of free will and predestination. There are two main sects, the Sunnites, or Orthodox, and the Shiites, or Sectaries. The latter belong to the party of Ali, the son-in-law and successor of Mohammed, and regard his descendants as the only legitimate Caliphs. Thus the Caliphs after Ali are considered as usurpers...
...interesting lecture on the historical and literary value of the Old Testament. The Bible contains an historical account of the Hebrew nation from its foundation to the time of Christ. Mingled with the purely historical are the books of prophecy, the poetical and devotional books and the books of ritual and law which formed the governing code of church and state. In this course Professor Lyon intends to read and discuss the writings of the prophets, as literary and historical relics of Hebrew literature...
...large audience assembled in Appleton Chapel yesterday evening to listen to Dr. Greer of Grace Church, Providence. The service was conducted in the usual Sunday evening ritual, by Dr. Francis Peabody. The intrinsic beauty of the hymns was greatly enhanced by the manner in which they were rendered by the choir and Mr. Osgood...
...necessary to use some traditional form of prayers, the older and more universal, the better. Thus each may feel that his prayer is the prayer of all; that it is not a selfish wish or capricious will that he utters, but the cry of all mankind. By using a ritual service of this sort, we may help to bring back this sense of the authority and sublimity of religion. We may be brought to feel that the same impulse prompts men now which has always prompted them. Only by interpreting the deepest and most fundamental human consciousness has religion...