Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...necessary to understand in the first place the real meanings of the three terms "the Kingdom of God," "the Church," and "the Church System." Wherever the spirit of God is present and is working superior to other influences, there is the Kingdom of God. It is born in the worship of the individual soul, and works out in active service for society. Every great social movement for good is a part and a manifestation of the Kingdom of God among...
...Public Worship and Preaching...
...exercises. In 1775 the academic buildings were occupied as barracks by the American troops, and the College was removed to Concord, Mass., where recitations were held in the court-house and prayers in the town meeting-house. After the College returned Harvard Hall continued to be the place of worship until University Hall was built in 1814. Here services were performed during forty-four years, until 1858, when Appleton Chapel was erected, which has since been devoted to religious purposes...
...said that it stood for the power of Phillips Brooks. In his early life Phillips Brooks was not a leader, and he failed completely as a teacher, so that his later power seems almost a gift from the Almighty. This power had its source in his knowledge, love and worship of God. The power became his, because he chose to elect spiritual light as his life work. Thus the Phillips Brooks House becomes an addition to Harvard, with an influence to broaden and complete other more intellectual influences...
...that led to his being elected to the Board of Overseers when he came to Boston in 1870. He served on this board from 1870-1882, and again from 1883-1889. Among his greatest works while connected, with the University was the harboring of the "experiment" of voluntary religious worship. At first he had opposed this scheme, but he finally changed his view, and devoted himself to its success. He was among the first of the preachers at the chapel, where his power forced itself into student's lives...