Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Moses Merrill, '56. "I should never compel attendance at prayers. Compulsory worship is a mockery. 2; I shall always favor Greek as a requisite for collegiate instruction and the degree...
...Signet," and also president of the evangelical religious society, "The Christian Brethren." Graduating with honors in Philosophy, he was given a place on the commencement stage, and was also made Phi Beta Kappa marshal of his class for the day. His commencement oration, on "The Modern Worship of Culture," was a brilliant and caustic arraignment of the tendencies at Harvard which militate against the higher life; Mr. Hyde next passed two years at Union Seminary; then, after a year's further study, was graduated at Andover in 1882, his commencement thesis there being "Tauler and the Mystics." He pursued...
...committee appointed by the Overseers to discuss the chapel petitions have written to the Christian Brethren for their opinion as a body on the subject. The society voted in favor of the non-compulsory worship...
Divinity School Chapel. Conference. Subject: Public Worship; its place in Modern Life...
...sure way of making it a mockery; the studied reserve, the conscious insufficiency of such a service is too notorious to be pointed out. In our day, to make a religion fit for all, is to make one fit for nobody. The prayers, then, should feed the craving for worship which some yet feel; they should have a meaning. But since they cannot possibly have one meaning for all, let only those attend them whose sentiments they express. But above all, let them be prayers; let them be for someone the genuine expression of spiritual life...