Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust...
...hardly be doubted that national spirit is kept up by the soldiers and sailors in our country's service. It is they who spend their lives beneath the flag. That national spirit means more than a blind worship of the flag with us. When the band is assembled upon our flagships in China to play the national air as our flag is unfurled to the morning sun, every sailor's heart grows warm and sometimes his eyes grow dim, not because that flag represents a nation, but because justice and liberty, peace and rest, the purity and sacredness...
...which is naturally a religious disease. But no man who reflects can help believing that there is a spirit in things which commands reverence and if there be such a divine spirit, nature can not be its revelation to man, because visible nature is too indifferent to command our worship. We look then to a greater universe of which nature is only a part. Of this universe man's religious faith is only the scaffolding, and so must religion involve the idea that in some way one must die to this world before he can enter the eternal world...
There are, said Dr. Vincent, certain questions which arise everywhere, to all men at all times: Is there a God whom we should worship and obey? Does death end all? Is there another world all about us and of which we are a part? Jesus gives us a solution in his ministry, of an open heaven, of the Father's witness, and of the ideal of true manhood. No man can compare with him in his relations...
...hear him, few probably realized the chance they were throwing away. If this unfortunate heedlessness could be overcome and the large body of students brought to understand the real worth of the chapel services, no advocate of compulsory attendance could find fault with Harvard's principle of voluntary worship...