Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...time when a nation will fight for an oppressed people without the least thought of gain; and will send its ship laden with grain to a starving nation, from whom it has not received, and cannot receive, the least return. All the teachings of Jesus Christ centre about this vital principle of service. The aim of His life was ministering, not being ministered unto...
...thoroughly religious they must be, in their own spheres, missionaries. If religion is to them a vital thing, a part of the very fibre of their lives and their interests, as it is meant to be, they cannot in conscience keep from trying to spread it. What wonder that religion is sometimes called a weak and effeminate thing, what wonder that it is often robbed of its influence and uplifting power, when men hide it in the solitary musings of their minds, and date not, or care not to die out it must grow through unselfish service and through philanthropic...
...that not a man or woman in our broad country now works in the same way or to the same results as men and women worked in 1700. Not a soldier or a sailor fights today in the least as soldiers and sailors fought when Yale was born. Most vital change of all, a new spirit animates the corporeal mass of civilized society--the pervasive, aggressive, all-modifying spirit of Christian democracy...
...churches and creeds believe also that man is made in God's image, that men are of kin to Him, and that their duty is to fulfill in their own lives and characters the principles of that moral order that God has shaped for the world. On the really vital truths of religion all men, irrespective of sectarian distinctions, may unite, and in this unity of thought and feeling may aid each other in fulfilling the one great aim of all religions--the perfecting of the divine order, by bringing the whole world into harmony with God's will...
...Peabody's book is an inspiring discussion of a subjects of which the interest should be as general as it is vital...