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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Religion to many people, said Bishop Vincent, means personal safety and security from discomfort. Real religion is a different thing. It rejoices in the message of eternal life, but it never loses sight of earth. Its claims are vital and practical. 14 calls upon a man to think with enthusiasm and attention upon the true and honorable and lovely things of life...
...story of the man born blind, in which the next appears, shows, Bishop Carpenter said, the evolution of a human soul. First comes the outside influence, the moment when we see that life is a far more transcendent thing than we have supposed...
Bishop Anderson, on the subject of "The West," was the next speaker. There is no such thing, he said, as North and East and South and West. The East has no problems that the West does not also have, and the West has none which the East has not. It is the duty of all public men to minimize the things that differentiate the various parts of the country. The work of the church and the problems of the nation take on different colors in different parts of the country. Thus in the West the church is more agressive than...
...life goes on, the Archbishop said, we constantly learn that it is not always the good questions that get the most immediate answers, and it is not necessarily a good thing to get an immediate answer, provided the question is so put as to make us think. When he was a schoolboy his master, whom he at that time thought a not very wise schoolmaster, used to ask him in which century and in which country he would most have preferred to live. Although at that time his answers varied and were inconsistent, he was sure now. The century would...
...Eliot characterized the best Harvard man as the gentleman who is also a democrat. Two requisites for a gentleman, he said, are quiet tastes, and a disposition to see the superiorities in people and to desire association with one's superiors. Then, too, a gentleman should be generous, a thing not incompatible with being poor in money. Life should conform to one's resources. A real gentleman will always be considerate of those whom he employs, and above all he will never do anything injurious to a creature weaker than himself. As a democratic gentleman, too, he must be effective...