Word: sects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constitutional: (a) Under Article 4, Sect. 3, and 2, it would perpare for sale millions of acres now valueless; under Art. I, Sect. 8. and 3, storage reservoirs would obviate the building of levees on the Mississippi; under Art. I, Sect 8 and 1, it would contribute to the general welfare of the country...
...growth and the high standing which it has attained in the college. He then spoke of the position of the Christian man in the University. A true Christian, the speaker said, was a follower of Jesus, and one who was not ashamed to own it. Christianity is not a sect or division of religion, it is the universal religion or none...
There is, however, a characteristic tone of thought and independent way of thinking among Harvard men, which prefers truth to sect and country to poetry. Speeches were made by Secretary Fair child, Senator Eustis and several others...
...most useful college is the one which has no dominant sect. At Harvard, where more than one thousand students are gathered together, there is no dominant religious sect, and the probability is that there will never be one. In this state of affairs it is manifestly unjust, and certainly impossible, to force any one set of religious views upon a community so divided in opinion. There are three types of American colleges, distinguished from each other by their religious policies. First, the uncompromising denominational college, in which graduates and instructors have been under one influence all their lives...
...method of theological study at Harvard is of priceless importance to the Church of Christ in America. It emphasizes the way in which religious problems should be approached. It has begun to free strong and earnest minds from the thralldom of sect. If the divinity schools at Andover or New. Haven, or the one established by churchmen under the shadow of Harvard, are worth anything to-day, it is because they approach the study of Christianity by the method which has been successfully inaugurated at Harvard. The lines of advance are in this direction. * * * The majority of the divinity students...