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...religion of my country is a simple, natural religion. Discarding sectarian name, we call it Theism, always keeping clear the distinction between that and Deism. Deism is abstract, logical, negative in its nature; theism embodies the expressions of the devout and the revelations of God. Deism may believe in God, but that God is washed out by the ideas of the man himself. Deism and theism alike must embody themselves in creeds, rites and observances, which have unfortunately been allowed to obscure the grand issues of religion...
Iceland's Heroic Age exrends from the settlement of the island to 1067. Ari, Iceland's greatest scholar and historian, possessed in a marked degree abilities for historical writing. He was a priest-chief, and was a devout Christian, but he cherished none the less the traditions of his country. He was more than a mere chronicler, he was an historian, possessing an appreciation of the true relations of events one to the other. He was the father of Icelandic letters...
...religious service most distinguished in Christendom, as I think, and most remarkable for all those qualities of religious service which give distinction to any regular function. It was more fully attended, I suppose, than any regular meeting of men for worship in the world. Nothing could be asked more devout than the manner, and, on the whole, more earnest, than the purpose of the worshippers. The best arrangement that science knows how to make was made for the right rendering of praise. And, for the rest, by the working in two centuries and a half of the great central...
...fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained to believe that those devout men would have preferred to establish no prayers, to devise some other way of calling the roll, and to leave the students who wished to pray to do so in private. They established prayers that they might pray together; only while they serve this end are prayers worth having. If they...
...ground and brought forth fruit, some a hundred fold." The communication printed in another column in reference to a previous editorial on "religious decadence" at Harvard, as pictured in a prominent New York paper, is surely of the "hundred fold." We fully appreciate the shock which the writer's devout spirit has experienced at our "gross misrepresentation" of the article in question. It has never been the custom for a non-sectarian college newspaper man to read between the lines even in "his excitement." Nor is "his anger" aroused at a statement which bears upon its face its utter falsity...