Word: worship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard Religious Union. Meetinghouse or Church: The Importance of Beauty in our Places of Worship. Mr. R. A. Cram, Architect, of Boston. Sever...
Harvard Religious Union. Meeting-house or Church: the Importance of Beauty in our Places of Worship. Mr. R. A. Cram, Architect, of Boston. Sever...
...though a Roman play was in one sense far from being religious, it retained many traces of its ancient origin. The religion of the Greeks and Romans was almost entirely free from introspection, self-abasement, and asceticism. Their attitude towards the gods was chiefly one of hilarious gratitude. In worship they offered among other things the time which naturally would be devoted to business; and the natural opposite of labor was enjoyment. So that, to a Roman, attendance upon a spectacle of any kind was an act of worship just as going to church is to a Christian. To have...
...choir sang "Jerusalem, High Tower Thy Glorious Walls," by Parker; "Hosanna in the Highest," by Stainer; and "O Worship the Lord," by Watson...
...worship God through the ideals of our own souls. Why then talk of worshipping God, rather than that power of goodness and truth which is in humanity? Certainly the latter would be better than worshiping a cold force outside of ourselves. Is there no alternative? Can we not worship the infinite through the best that is in the Human, and thus rise form the human to the divin? But in the way of the pilgrim who journeys toward the city of God stands the giant Anthropomorphism. The saying "These cannot be God, because the workman made them," is as true...