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...Tagore began his lecture with a quotation from the Upanished or Scriptures, "Man becomes truly a man if in this life he can apprehend God; if not, it is the greatest calamity for him." The infinite is not a concrete thing which man can acquire and add to his possessions; he can never find Brahma, for Brahma himself is everywhere; what he must do is to free himself from the confinement of the life of the self and by daily worship seek not to acquire God but to surrender himself to God...
...people of India greatly resembled those of the first settlers in America, but the aims and evolution of the two races were far different. America sought to produce perfect men, who should possess all knowledge and power; India sought to attain eternal peace and calm by perfect harmony with God and nature, even at the cost of worldly success...
...President of Andover Theological Seminary, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock today. The general theme on which the addresses for this week will be given is "Mirrors for Men in the Old Testament." This morning's subject is "A Child's Idea of God." I. Samuel 3: 1-19. No seats are reserved...
...must be a spiritual as well as a human impulse. Not to serve is to die. Men grow dull, remote and old in the accumulation of riches or of knowledge which they do not share. That youth who is consecrated to this religion of service, giving himself to his God, as he finds God in his fellowmen, that youth is endowed with life's most durable and most precious compensation. He may not gain recognition or pleasures or riches or ease, but these are the accidental gifts of life and they are not essential to the fulfillment of his destiny...
...band of young men going abroad to do God's work in the world it seems strange to speak on such a sordid theme as the care of property, let it be remembered that the social relations brought about by the new forms of property lie at the basis of most of the intricate problems of modern life, and that the straight path to a righteous solution of those problems lies in a sense of duty on the part of the possessor. It is the habit of the day to decry loudly the iniquity of others, to assume that...