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...longer what it was "when Godfrey lead the foremost of the Franks" or when "an Englishman would rather split his ship and fall into the hands of God than into the hands of Spain." Fighting now is done with great soulless machines. There is no hope or purpose or meaning in it. "War has lost the vitality that it once had; it is a dead thing, a peril to the social body...
...delivering the Dudleian lecture on "Christianity and Ministerial Ordination" last night Rev. Ambrose White Vernon, D.D., Pastor of the Brookline Harvard Church, reached this conclusion: "When a man comes to believe that redemption consists in taking the brotherly attitude towards God, and the brotherly attitude towards men, then ordination as an indispensable qualification for any Christian service becomes an impertinence. When a man, through reverence and trust in Jesus, makes his attitude to God and man his own, he has become a King and priest to God; no ordination can give him more than an opportunity for the exercise...
...tyranny of the sensual desires is the supreme goal of the philosophy of India. Selfish pleasures are in truth self-destructible. Ignorance is the only fetter which binds the self to these pleasures. Therefore, sinfulness is not contained in the original nature of man to be destroyed by God alone, but may be wiped out by the destruction of ignorance...
...itself and is not contained within fulfills its purpose. The perfect revelation of self is love. Love in the gladsome giving of self; it is our freedom. But love must involve action in order to bear true freedom. The mother's love for her children is an active love. God created the earth through love; and not through necessity. The latter destroys, the former causes immortality. Thus, since self is a manifestation of love, it also is immortal. It appears to end with death, but in reality it is eternal...
...China, and Japan. He briefly pointed out some of the effects that a true religion can have on the people that accept it. Two of our doctrines so great in the development of the human mind are those of fraternity and of the conception of the Deity as a god to be worshipped in spirit. Neither of these conceptions generally exists in India, China, or Japan. The Eastern races have no conception of the brotherhood of man. For instance, if a woman in Canton were to fall in a river before the eyes of a hundred men, they would...