Word: creator
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...give their true poetic value to those sentiments which are the very substance of lyric poetry. Love he considers an eternal sentiment; death the dawn of a glorious immortality. In nature he sees a comforter of man. His religious sentiment is a belief in the existence of the Creator in every created thing...
...hymns may be specially mentioned Phillips Brooks's "O Little Town of Bethlehem," the music to which was written for the University Hymn Book by Joseph Barnby; and the Harvard Hymn by Professor Paine, for which the words beginning "Deus omnium Creator" were written last year by Professor Greenough. In accordance with a desire frequently expressed to the compilers of the hymn book, a large number of German Chorals have been inserted...
...Lyman Abbott conducted Vesper service in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. He look for the theme of his remarks the relation of man to God and man to man. The Bible shows plainly the relation of the human being to the Creator and in showing this is reveals the ideal attitude of man to man. In the beginning man was formed in the image of God, and being thus formed, was given a nature which had godly attributes...
...begin to look forward with pleasant anticipation to the vesper services. These services, coming as they do on Thursdays at 5 o'clock, an hour convenient for most members of the university make a pleasant break in the week, and afford an opportunity for the common worship of our Creator, a worship which as Dr. Donald so apply said, we all feel the need of simply because we are human beings...
This is the climax of Newman's thought as it is the end of all wisdom, - to know the living and the true God. It is the supreme triumph of his intellect, to will away the world and stand in the presence of his Creator. It is this singleness of purpose that gives to his personality its marvellous power over men, - the power of one who sees farther and clearer, whose life is wrapped up in the divine, whose meditations are of the Eternal. For it is the personality of Newman that is significant. As in his religious thought...