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...sermon asserted the obligation of every man to pass on to whom he may the gifts with which God has blessed him; to leave the beaten path of selfishness and give himself to the service of others. It showed how in particular the duty came home to Harvard men. In the college, more than anywhere else, there is a vast store of energy, vitality, health and wealth of all things of which the world has need. The problem which consciously or not is decided by each student is whether in the use of these he shall consult his own exclusive...
...Dudleian lectures, a fact that shows the liberality of the present American feeling toward Catholics. The Catholic Church occupies a very important public position. No party, no statesman leaves it out of account. It has a tremendous power. It claims to be the direct organ of God, and, for that reason, absolute and infallible. These great and unique claims can not be passed over without a challenge. This is the answer of liberalism...
...worship in England in 1825. It openly admits the imposition of "pious frauds," and claims that faith need not be kept with Protestants. Whether the Catholic Church will ever abandon its absurd claims to infallibility, it will always be the duty of its members to do their duty before God...
...question of the supernatural origin of the Christian religion is one in which we are all concerned. If it is supernatural is there anything in it which we are bound to believe? All religion is supernatural because it presupposes God and a soul and a certain relation between these two. The answer to the question as to the value of Christianity as a thing to be believed depends upon our idea of its source...
First among the deeper aspects he sees the demand for the idealist. On the surface it seems just the opposite, but beneath it in the deeper movement of the inner life through which God has guided every age, he sees that if there is anything manifest it is the inadequacy of the material life...