Word: christhood
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...divine. The utterances, therefore, of the nearness and the love of God, and of the possibility of man. Once in the ages came the wondrous life, but what life made manifest had been forever there. The love of God, the possibility of man. These two which made the Christhood - these two - not two but one - had been the elements in which all life was lived, all knowledge known, all growth attained. Oh! how little men have made it, and how great it is. Around all life which ever has been lived there has been found forever the life...
...duty of an anniversary to test and recognize the relation in which a man or a venerable college stands to this element of the Christhood, to the goodness of God and the greatness of man as making together the atmosphere of life. Think, then, about the history of our college as we hurriedly traced it. Is its true explanation here? Has all this constant enlargement of its life been moving toward the great truths of the goodness of God and the sublime capacity of man. It must be so. Our progress of these two centuries and a half would...
...nearness of his love and to the divineness of manhood as his child, now, at her festival, when she gathers all history up into her consciousness and stands in awe before herself, now is the time for her to boldly recognize her own profounder meaning, to own the Christhood within which she has lived, and to give her whole future up to it for government, and help, and blessing. Let us demand of her to do that for herself to-day. My friends, brethren in the love and care of our great mother, let us do that...
What does it mean to do that, she asks? Let her remember, let her know that Christ is law as well as truth; Christ is righteousness as well as revelation. The Christhood which is yesterday, to-day and forever is the perpetual utterance of the unchanging ordinance of God, that only through the doing of the right does man come to the knowledge of the true. Let, then, the college which seeks the highest truth in Christ accept the necessity of righteousness as the sole doorway and avenue to it. We miss the great conviction in too much...
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