Word: trade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...offered prayer, after which Mr. C. F. Webber of Boston sang "Be thou faithful unto death," a solo from Mendelssohn's "St. Paul." Dr. McKenzie delivered the address. He spoke about the wise sayings of Jesus when a youth and how Jesus at a later period carried on his trade of carpenter in addition to his religious work...
...growth of our large cities has been immense, but New York of to-day is but a pigmy when compared with the New York of the next century. We must do something to root out the liquor trade in these great centres, for it is well known that, other things being equal, the sale of whiskey increases faster than population, if that population lives in towns or cities...
...convenient if this one easy language can enable us to get along with comfort in the large hotels and shops of Europe; or can suffice for the merchant in his trade with all foreign countries...
...subordinate the state to the individual. Passing to the christian conception of the world, the speaker emphasized the idea that when we speak of the kingdoms of this world as destined to become the kingdoms of our Lord, we mean not merely China and Japan, but the kingdoms of trade, art, learning, science, government. The institutions, customs, opinions, feelings of society must become Christian...
...presence of him who said, "I came not to bring peace on the earth, but a sword." Thursday's lecture was devoted to the discussion of the question whether economic theory can be Christianizad. After reference to the formidable foe which the Christian sociologist finds in the realms of trade, where the desire for property has become the overmastering passion, and the enormous inequality in possessions has created envy and social discontent, the lecturer set forth the difficulty in the way of convincing the American laborer that these social differences are created by nature. Our society is built...