Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mass of ignorant people all over the world. That employed by the western world during the last century has been wrong in several respects. Its most grevious blunder is that it offers dogmatic terms of salvation to unbelievers, and proceeds upon the basis that all men are conceived in sin. The religion of India, on the other hand, is built upon the foundation of of good and truth in every man. This kind of missionary work, if it were universal, could not fail of success...
Many men think that in their youths they can sow their wild oats and live for pleasure. When they are ready to settle in life, they say, they will reform and become pure, religious men. They are mistaken. There is no short cut from sin to righteousness, and the only thing that can atone for their past is a complete change of inner feeling, which will not come at command. Good aspirations must precede any effort to reform, and the starting point must be the change of the very purpose of one's life...
...spoke briefly from the text: "Sell all that thou hast and give to the poor," urging every man to use his particular abilities for the good of others, and not to expect salvation merely because he has committed no sin...
That the idea of a devil has been a patent influence in moral development can not be doubted. In the struggle against sin it has given definiteness to the blows that they were struck against an enemy. But now the evil one is gone although the evil ones remain. In the time to come, people will do well if they fight evil with such vigor as our forefathers fought the devil...
Professor Carpenter preached at Vesper Service in the Chapel yesterday afternoon from the text "Let us set aside the sin that doth so easily beset us and run with patience the race that is set before us," taken from Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews. He said: When Paul wrote that, he had before him a vision of the great games, and he speaks at first enthusiastically for there was no one who would not do his best to win or get a high place in the Olympic games. As Paul turns aside to the race of life there comes...