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...religion, Christ is a door, through which Divinity comes to Humanity, just as the artist, the thinker, are door between the realms of beauty, and truth, and men. Through Christ God reveals himself to men. There is an innate passion in the human mind for expansion and one of the forms which this passion takes is a search for God. It is to this searching that the words come "I am the door...
...thinking man can never become perfectly settled in his mind on questions of the interpretation of Scripture, of creed and form. Yet through all these perplexities, which are, after all, side issues, certain fundamental truths stand out in perfect clearness, unobscured by personal feeling. The beautiful relation of Christ to men is one of these truths. The preacher ended with an earnest plea for breadth of view in the great truths and principles which effect all sects and creeds alike...
...devote ourselves to the good of our country and of our fellow men or we can think only of ourselves and lead lives of selfishness. There never was a better chance than there is today of choosing the unselfish life. We have the example of Christ before us; let us try to get into our lives a little of His divine life. May the lens, which always sees us as we are, find us following Paul in unselfish christian lives...
...which history has been written is largely responsible for the former view. We are, however, just beginning to understand the new Testament. More and more we are beginning to realize that the truly great men are the missionaries, the philanthropists, and the other servants of God. Christ came not to be ministered unto but to minister, and Paul, perhaps of all men most resembling Christ. Paul the great logician and scholar delighted in calling himself the servant of Christ. So ought we all to be servants of Christ. In our several callings we should emulate Him. In the words...
...satisfactory meeting than that which took place in their rooms last evening. The subject for discussion was "The Relation of College Men to Foreign Missions" and R. H. Kennedy '93 was was in charge. It is the duty of all Christians, he began by saying, to give themselves to Christ and to spend their lives where they can do the most good. The time has passed when we can look upon foreign missionary work with mere enthusiasm alone. There are now 1500 million people in the world. 140 million Protestants; 90 million, Greek Catholic; 205 million, Roman Catholic; 8 million...