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...possible what manner of man he was. With the simplicity and unselfconsciousness of the Russian, Gorky bares his own soul in the hope that the world may see the effect that the great man made upon him. At times he believes that Tolstoy is actually not man but god, and it is this belief which he seems most anxious to have verified. And so it is that he closes his volume of reminiscences: "And I, who doe not believe in God, looked at him for some time very cautiously, and a little timidly. I looked and thought: This...
...agree with Mr. Mason that the ideal for which our young men died was pure and Godly. I am sure he will believe with me that the fate of Socrates and the fate of the Nazarine were merely confirming exceptions, added to which may soon be the fate of Debs, to the great truth that the voice of the people is the voice of God...
...memorable will. Natural science was little known and less regarded; business was so simple as to require no special training; medicine was hardly on its way to becoming a science; law was meanly esteemed, as Lechford found, for the colony meant to the governed by the laws of God as given in the Bible and interpreted by the ministers. The ministry was the only profession for which academic preparation was provided. Harvard College, then, began as a School of Theology. Its aim was to educate learned ministers for the churches. Its course of study was such that a graduate...
There is a traditional notion that to be a minister one must have a "call," an unmistakable supernatural intimation that this is the particular work appointed for him by God. Certainly no man should think of entering the ministry unless religion means much in his own life, but beyond this his own tastes and aptitudes constitute the call to the ministry. He must be sincerely interested in other men, willing to help the, and be helped by them (for the relation is reciprocal) through the religious interest. The work of the minister is exceptionally diversified, and while...
...with some men the worship of God is not a thing of the number of Chapel services attended. Some withdraw to the stillness of the Chapel to work out their individual problems and to worship God not by stereotyped forms, but in their own hearts. Here the Chapel loses its greatest chance for service...