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Inasmuch as in the providence of God, William Howe Nelson has been called from among us, we, the members of the class of 1894 of Harvard College...
Professor George H. Palmer addressed the Saint Paul's Society on "Some of the Significations of Lent." He said that the reason that a special season like this is set aside especially for worship is not because at other times there is to be no communion with God, but because during the secular life, worship is apt to become too much subordinated. At the same time it is with Lent as with a college course. A may come to college and think when he has finished his four years that his education is complete, but if this...
...history of this organization into periods must be understood as only roughly correct. A twofold classification seems however justified by the fact that in Israel, as elsewhere, theology grew up in advance of anthropology. The books of the Old Testament written before and during the exile treat mainly of God; the later books aim to define and explain the position of man in the world...
...first problem, then, that confronts us in the study of the religion of the Israelites is their idea of God. Their pursuit of this idea was characterized by the most remarkable directness of purpose and perseverance. The result was monotheism. Many generations of men "toiled in thought" before the world arrived at that conception of one over-ruling deity which is as natural to us as the air we breath. At the time of the prophets the thinking men of all nations were engaged in an intense and almost vain struggle to grasp the idea of one God. Great minds...
...would be interesting to know to what the success of the Israelites in solving the great problem was due. The rigidity of their national feeling doubtless taught them to think no other god but theirs necessary for the world. Yet they do not seem in the beginning to have questioned that the god of the Ammonites ruled in his own territory, and whenever occasion offered they themselves fell to worshiping the deities of the neighboring peoples. It is only by gradual evolution that the Israelites became monotheists, and we are driven in the last resort to account for their final...