Word: world
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...progress of the world is largely due, Bishop Carpenter said, to great personalities, and Jesus Christ was one of these. Unless we remember that he was also a great religious personality, we cannot understand him or appreciate his works. Religion, moreover, is a power in human life so great that no investigation of religious subjects which does not take cognizance of it will ever be satisfactory to a modern audience. We cannot have a religion without a theology, and we cannot estimate the value of our own theology without comparing it with the theologies of others...
Wherein does the power of religion show itself? What is the tendency in a man which makes religion powerful? It is that tendency which makes a man seek to put himself into relationship with the powers of the unseen world. With man in an elementary stage of civilization, the reason for this is that he does not want these unseen powers to be hostile to him. But if the man is to enter successfully into this relationship he must do so on a moral basis. When he does this he makes a transcendent step in advance...
...that the first number of the Advocate is not of its usual excellence; it contains, however, two poems which merit praise. "Across the Centuries" has unusual charms of melody, and "The Boy and the World" is inspiring. The third poem, "Autumn Leaves in June," is somewhat obscure...
...which this realization of power comes the possibility of pain. On the threshold of life, when we are full of enthusiastic ambitions and expectations, the world challenges us. It is then that we must show our character, manifest our courage and put our manhood to the test. We experience the acceptance of personal responsibility...
...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, efficient, a power in the world as a worker, an organizer. The gentleman will also be deferential to age, to excellencies, to all things worthy...