Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dudleian Lecture. Rev. Dr. Gustay Gottheil of New York. Subject (prescribed by the will of the founder): "The proving, explaining, and proper use and improvement of the principles of natural religion, as it is commonly called and understood by Divines and Learned men." Appleton Chapel, 7,30 p. m. The public are invited...
...principal writer of lyric verse was Walther von der Vogelweide who lived a long and wandering life. His themes were principally on nature, politics and religion in all of which he did not hesitate to express his opinion. The versification of this verse is determined by accentmerely since the stanzas differ with different writers...
...weekly service at Appleton Chapel last evening heard a most interesting sermon by the Rev. Lyman Abbott D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y. He took as his text, Micah vii., 18th verse-first clause: Who is a God like unto Thee who pardoneth iniquity? He said that the Christian religion is the only religion that pardons sins and that sin shall be taken from him that is weary of it but penalty shall not be removed...
...feeling; and a corresponding decrease of moral sentiment; it is a time of rapid expansion, and of unscrupulous accumulation. Out of such experiences the great epic traditions of a nation were born. These epics are not left intact. The Germans in the midst of this period adopted the Christian religion, and abandoned their own religious ideas; with the religious ideas went the poetic ideas, too. But the Icelanders preserved the old traditions better, and Professor Francke analyzed the Elder Edda, and showed how it is a reflex of the time of migration...
...second epoch groups itself about 1200. The European nations were then settled in almost the same bounds as today; The Catholic religion was established, and the feudal system evolved order out of the social chaos. Under the union of the papacy and the empire men as men did not exist; there was no such thing as individual liberty; a man existed only as a member of a body. And yet it was through these institutions that the nations breathed their sincerest faith and highest aspirations. The great epic of this period is the Nioelungen Leid, and it is as characteristic...