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...loathes and spurns from his side. He remembers having heard of a book known as the Bible, once when he was a boy, and he has an edition of this work in his library; it is preserved on account of its antiquity. He has never heard of the Christ, or, at least, he regards him as below his notice. He is a Hedonist. His aim is to live at all odds a happy life. If he sees misery in any form he becomes queasy, and he therefore regards it his duty to shun all poverty and to refuse to render...
Thus Cardinal Newman upon the clerical pomps and vanities at Oxford: "I can not bear the pomp and pretense which I see everywhere. I am not speaking against individuals, but I speak of the system. There are ministers of Christ with large incomes, living in finely furnished houses, with wives and families, and stately butlers, and servants in livery, giving dinners all in the best style, so descending and gracious, waving their hands, and mincing their words as if they were the cream of the earth, but without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white...
...method of theological study at Harvard is of priceless importance to the Church of Christ in America. It emphasizes the way in which religious problems should be approached. It has begun to free strong and earnest minds from the thralldom of sect. If the divinity schools at Andover or New. Haven, or the one established by churchmen under the shadow of Harvard, are worth anything to-day, it is because they approach the study of Christianity by the method which has been successfully inaugurated at Harvard. The lines of advance are in this direction. * * * The majority of the divinity students...
...college of Milton, called Christ's, is of small extent and possesses few objects of interest save the celebrated mulberry tree that belonged to John Milton. Sir Christopher Wren built the library of Pembroke College. Spencer, Gray, and Wm. Pitt are among its alumni. Jesus, now called Magdalen College, possesses three entire libraries, and treasures among its relics, the original Mss of Pepy's. Diary...
...nearer, by a little, at least, to the men who have gone out from these classic shades. Here I am shown the cell where Thomas Cranmer was confined, and there I stand on the very spot where Latimer and Ridley were burned. I enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus...