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Christianity according to Christ furnishes the basis for the largest and richest culture of which men are capable - the largest and richest culture of mind, body and soul. The old religion taught that Christ's doctrine was the doctrine of the mortification of the body for the glory of God. But we know now that Christ paid great attention to the physical welfare of men. He went about healing all manner of disease among the people, and ended the parable of the Good Samaritan by commanding his disciples to go and do each for his neighbor in distress what...
...often guilty of, when they try to hide their best feelings and impulses, and to appear cynical and indifferent. This hypocrisy is, he said, much more dangerous than the deceit of a man who tries to be better than he really is. A man cannot divide his allegiance. God demands his whole heart and life...
...order, and became a preacher of no mean ability. His beliefs, though rather startling to his uneducated countrymen, were by no means new. He taught the Catholic religion, but he was so original and independent in his views, that his preaching became the thought of a soul alone with God. He arose to considerable eminence in Germany and held various offices in his religious order. These offices were taken away from him owing to his Pantheistic views, and on his appeal to the Pope, he was excommunicated. He died about the year 1327. As a thinker, he was too independent...
...Moxom addressed the Christian Association last evening on the responsibility of university men of firm personal faith in God, in meeting the critical social conditions...
...Potts spoke with some indignation of the virulent abuse to which Mr. Curtis had been exposed in consequence of the attitude which he had taken, because, like Martin Luther, "so help him God he could do no otherwise." In conclusion he touched briefly upon Mr. Curtis's home life in the country, which kept him constantly fresh and hopeful. His work went on wherever he was, and his study was a charmed retreat. In the leisure hours, his house and his heart were open with the most generous hospitality. He was a superlatively good talker, and he enjoyed talking...