Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...VanDyke conducted the service at Appleton Chapel last night. He took his text from Matthew xxiii, 23, and spoke of the pharisaical attitude toward religion, of their tendency to observe the outward forms of worship and service and neglect what is of real importance. Dr. Van Dyke will also conduct the service next Sunday...
...same line with the above work was the distribution last summer of the pamphlet showing the opportunities provided here for religious worship, instruction and fellowship. This pamphlet was sent not only to parents and guardians of students, but to many persons who would be unlikely to know the real feeling of the University. Almost on this same line of work is the present distribution of a pamphlet by Secretary Bolles, stating briefly what Harvard University is, giving an outline of almost every branch of University and student work...
...addresses, articles to contemporary history. In a political point of view the prophet was distinctly a statesman, as he interpreted for another and lead public opinion. The moral tone of the prophet was of the highest order and his religious work had a strong tendency to put down the worship of many gods. The spirit of the prophet's work was an unselfish, sympathetic and uncompromising one, truly courageous and hopeful...
Professor George H. Palmer addressed the Saint Paul's Society on "Some of the Significations of Lent." He said that the reason that a special season like this is set aside especially for worship is not because at other times there is to be no communion with God, but because during the secular life, worship is apt to become too much subordinated. At the same time it is with Lent as with a college course. A may come to college and think when he has finished his four years that his education is complete, but if this...
...rigidity of their national feeling doubtless taught them to think no other god but theirs necessary for the world. Yet they do not seem in the beginning to have questioned that the god of the Ammonites ruled in his own territory, and whenever occasion offered they themselves fell to worshiping the deities of the neighboring peoples. It is only by gradual evolution that the Israelites became monotheists, and we are driven in the last resort to account for their final worship of one god by an innate race tendency of which we can give no account...