Word: sin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...world turned fatalist, we might see our good people face life with a little more calmness and intrepidity; we might expect to find less self-accusation and less of what is called righteous indignation. For if we came to regard wickedness as misfortune and monstrosity rather than sin, we should not find it necessary to be so vehement in our condemnation of wrong doing, since we should not feel so much secret sympathy with it. Even now, who of us in his heart would not be a rake rather than a hunchback, a villain rather than a fool? In spite...
Self-consciousness is peculiar to man. It results in a sense of loneliness, and in the realization of sin. It may be escaped by liquor or opium, sinking the man to the animal state; or by religion, raising him above self-consciousness. The method Christianity officers to accomplish this, is the cultivation of altruistic motives. "Love the Lord thy God with all thy soul and with all thy might and thy soul and with all thy might and thy neighbor as thyself." As altruism, or unselfishness increases, death loses its fears. It will be said in future centuries, that...
DECEMBER 2. SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel. Rev. James Freeman Clark, D. D., 7.30 P. M. "The sin which easily besets us; and the good which is ready to help...
...long time the patronage of the drama was viewed almost as a sin at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. Even amateur performances by the students were looked upon with disfavor. But a new era now appears to have dawned Under the liberal rule of Professor Jowett, the Oxford students are now attacking such plays as "The Merchant of Venice," and the "Vic" Theatre, well known to old Oxonians as the scene of many a friot and unlimited uproar, is again reopened in term-time and the "Shakesperian and English Comedy Company" is now giving English plays...
...this inroad of radicalism is much longer permitted we may look next for the appearance of the epidemic even at Harvard. We do not know that ever, of late years at least, a Harvard professor has been guilty of the sin of light literature, or has ever manifested any desire to show a talent that should startle the world ; still it is the unexpected that always happens and we should be on our guard...