Word: worship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...provision for the religious worship of the students must include a recognition of the fact that a considerable percentage of them live within easy travelling distance of Cambridge, and that these men will naturally go home over each week-end. Of the many who remain, some will establish relations with churches of their own denomination in Cambridge or Boston, though on account of the transitory character of the student community this number will never be large. Some there will always be who will not go to church at all, and some who go only on exceptional occasions, being discouraged from...
...these different groups of our shifting population are many who in their homes or preparatory schools have been accustomed to regular attendance on Sunday morning worship. It is these men that the new hour at Appleton Chapel is intended to accommodate. The high quality of the services is evidenced by the reputation of the preachers who come to conduct them. No church accessible to the students maintains higher standards of worship and instruction. The change has been made in the interest of the students, and those who are in charge of the services will look for proof of the wisdom...
...believe that there are many students who do not realize what service the University performs in maintaining in quiet constancy this opportunity of religious worship and instruction in the midst of the student community. And we are sure that there are many men who have not reflected how much they might do by their participation in those services to sustain this effort on behalf of the best life. Ministers of distinction of various denominations and from all parts of the country put their experience at the disposal of the students, not only in the Chapel services, but also by keeping...
...would acknowledge their own need of that aid in their religious life for which the Chapel stands, do yet, in the multiplicity of other interests and their failure to hold themselves to a fixed habit, lose altogether the advantage which they might derive from sharing in the public worship of the University...
...representative bodies, the Great Congregation and the Council of Elders; the first constitutional king known to history; freedom of speech; free industrial education provided by law; and an established church, to which membership and support were optional. The Levitical Code was regulative, not mandatory. It did not require worship, but prescribed absolute forms for those who chose to worship or to make sacrifices. Blasphemy was a capital offense, being considered perversion of Jehovah, the supreme ruler of the nation, and therefore treason. The Covenant of Moses, the most ancient book of the Hebrews, demanded reverence for God, respect for parents...