Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university who were in sympathy with the work of the league even though not total abstainers themselves, would join it. He then introduced Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., who said that the question which was before them was the principal social issue of the times whether in religion, in politics, or in general life. He reviewed the great changes which have taken place in regard to this great problem during the last decade, and also the great transition of point of view which has come to the people during that time. He showed that the cause had made great...
...manner, and, on the whole, more earnest, than the purpose of the worshippers. The best arrangement that science knows how to make was made for the right rendering of praise. And, for the rest, by the working in two centuries and a half of the great central law of religion, every word of controversial theology or of dogmatic discussion was, by precedent and general understanding, excluded from a service which was simply the consecration of each new day, by eight hundred picked men of high purpose preparing for lofty duty. Perfectly naturally, therefore, the service here has assumed the place...
...tone and the literary excellence of the various articles. If the editors of the Monthly desire to keep for their magazine a literary reputation they have only to follow the precedent so well sustained in the present number. The opening essay written by Mr. F. G. Peabody and entitled "Religion in a University" is very opportune. It is a frank statement of Harvard on the question of voluntary and compulsory attendance at religious services. The essay is forcible, directly to the point, and convincing. It reads like a final statement of the matter, and we hope that it will meet...
...Lyon will close his Lowell Institute course on "Ancient Assyrian Life" to-night with a lecture on the "Religion and Ethics" of that time...
...casket as indispensable to the increase of the brilliancy of the gem, is an unnatural paradox, to say the least. As a consequence of this strange logic the body was disparaged, vilified, cursed, macerated and mutilated by a set of theologians, scholastic and mystical, who had wedded a religion divorced from science. The Olympic games were suppressed by an imperial decree. Manly exercises, the festivals of the seasons, mirthful pastimes and health-giving sports were discouraged as unworthy of a holy person. The crusade against the body, which consisted in wreaking all sorts of cruelties and degradations on the wondrous...