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...Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter, D.D., Bishop of Ripon, gave the third of the William Belden Noble lectures on "The Witness to the Influence of Christ," in the Fogg Lecture Room last night...
...Christ, said Bishop Carpenter, is a great personality in the world. In his life we find expressed the harmony between man and the unseen powers. He was more than an influential person; he was a great teacher of mankind. Some have said that we know nothing about Christ's principles, as we have no authoritative record of what he said. But eminent critics maintain that we have plenty of ground for believing that the gospels contain the essential principles of Christ's teaching...
...revivify Christian doctrines and dogmas, we should lay them beside the principles of Christ. Then can we find the truth which the dogma was formed to preserve. Among his principles we find that of inwardness. To the Jews, the "kingdom of God" was a material kingdom which was to come. Christ, however, taught that the Kingdom of God was here, open to all who sought for it. Anyone who aids those in need finds the Kingdom of God an inward kingdom within men's hearts...
...WILLIAM BELDEN NOBLE LECTURES. III. The Witness to the Influence of Christ. Right Reverend W. Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, England. Phillips Brooks House...
...Wherever Christ found religion used against righteousness, his indignation was aroused, for religion must rest on a moral basis. Jesus Christ was in perfect harmony with the unseen powers. He is the type of what man can be when he enters into perfect harmony with...