Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Peabody said that Harvard had faith in young men that they would respond to a wholesome and rational religion, and did not drive them to the worship of God, but rather trusted in their manliness to aid spontaneously what was best in college life...
...would not set him in place of God. "I am the door," he says of himself; by him I would enter to know God. The whole world is looking for this knowledge; the world is an Athens and everywhere is the inscription to the Unknown God. But we worship no longer an unknown God. We have found Him; and in Him one whom we can love, reverence, and imitate, as well as the power to help us to realize in ourselves our highest ideals...
...Amherst Senate recently passed a unanimous resolution in favor of free worship. The resolution was vetoed by Pres. Gates...
...life revealed the truth that the pure in heart see God. Behind the magnificent intellect, was the pure, gentle, tranquil heart which guided and utilized the intellect. He was one man whom we may call a college saint, and before him college men bowed, as it were, to worship...
...should like to add that my experience as University Preacher at Harvard has greatly deepened my long cherished conviction and my frequently expressed opinion that no body of men can be so safely entrusted with complete freedom, in the matter of visible religious worship, as the students of our colleges. And where that freedom comes - as come it surely and I think speedily will - we shall hear from College men, not 'I was sad or mad,' but 'I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord...