Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Applied to ourselves, these thoughts suggested that bad habits and evil thoughts were to be removed by the cultivation of those that were good. Social evils should be cured by the influence of pure lives. Forms and dogmas that were outgrown should be supplanted only by better forms and better dogmas. The mind should be relieved of half truths by learning whole truths. The great example of the reformer, after all, was Christ...
...Proposition is objectionable on economic grounds. - (a) Prevents the satisfaction of a natural social instinct. - (1) A dispensary not sufficient. - (2) A shop conducted with philanthropic motives not sufficient. - (x) Men do not like to be objects of philanthropy. - (b) A strong demand of human nature will lead to violations of an opposing...
...opportunity which may be given to Harvard men to hear General Booth of the Salvation Army is one which would be highly appreciated. General Booth's great work as the founder of a large religious organization and as a social reformer is well known. There are probably few men in the world whose personal influence has been brought to bear directly or indirectly upon so large a number of persons as has that of General Booth. To see and to hear such a man is a privilege which does not come often...
...Allow me to thank you for your manly editorial in the Post on Saturday. No one likes to find fault with the alumni association of his college, but to turn a social gathering into an endorsement of an athlete without the slightest pretence of investigating the charges against him for the last three years, which, whether they have any foundation or not, are made by so many disinterested persons that they can not be met by a general denial, however vociferous, is, to say the least, a perversion of the object of a college dinner. You deserve the thanks...
...love Christ as a martyr we should lay down our lives for the brethren. The call to duty today is no less real than in the days of the martyrs. The age craves heroes - heroes in the professions, in the church, in business, - heroes to face the great social, economic, and industrial problems...