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...Christ that we see the two forces, perfectly combined. By His whole life we are taught respect for the past, firmness to adapt the old truth to the search for new truth. Yet His radicalism is living; not passive, but active. The old testament "Thou shalt not do evil" becomes the new testament "Thou shalt do good...
...Christ teaches mankind the broadminded faculty, the freedom from gross materialism, which in art we call imagination, in philosophy idealism, in religion, faith. This is the gift which the world of today especially needs. The age is a cyclops with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
...both memory and hope therefore unite in us to raise our manhood. Men like Milton and Lincoln, above all Christ Himself, teach us that love and faith can and must survive from the past, must and can be won from the future, by man's earnest struggling away from selfishness, and towards lofty ideals...
February 15. Saturday.Organ Recital. Mr. W. R. Spalding. Christ Church...
...religion so supplies this necessity of man's being as does Christianity. The consciousness of Christ's presence comes to us at first as an impulse, but as faith grows, His power becomes a deep rooted principle upon which we can lean with confidence...