Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...requisite brawn who are content to do nothing but make their C 's and D's and soak up the heat in College dormitories. Is Captain Bingham's team to suffer, like its predecessors, not from want of stars but from lack of enough men with the proper spirit...
...December number of the Illustrated contains some unusually readable articles. Mr. Kline of the Boston Transcript finds in the subway a "drain-pipe" which is sucking from Cambridge the old concentrated spirit of culture. Harvard no longer remains "corked up at work." Perhaps the tube might also be termed a supply-pipe, which conducts into the otherwise closed academic corporation the culture of Boston; and in view of the recent large vote for license in the metropolis, the flow still promises to be as much into Cambridge as out of it. Formerly, Mr. Kline tells us, the student would...
...external forms of worship are dying out, and along with them is passing away the pious belief in arbitrary dogma. But do these symptoms really signify that science and philosophy are taking the place of religion? Do they not rather denote a change in the outward manifestations of religious spirit, while this very spirit itself remains unimpaired? The instinctive belief in an Unknowable is deep-rooted in every human being. In an unconscious way even the most skeptical scientist is religious...
...work of the ministry in the modern world is two-fold. It is, first, a task of inspiration and instruction. Here is a great mass of speculations and faiths which the modern world inherits which have to do with the nature of the Eternal Spirit and of the heart of man; with the problems of sin and suffering and ignorance and of what is to be the end of it all. On these great questions the minister speaks. Particularly as a Christian leader he endeavors to restate in the language of the moment, and from the world view...
...inclusive a contact with his generation. And it tends to make him what all great ministers have been, a supreme humanist; a man, that is, who finds the rewards of life not in material possessions, but in the ever more wide and intelligent contact with and influence over the spirit of his generation...