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...test the works from Isaiah, "What could be done to my vineyard that I have not done?" The speaker said that the test of a religion is whether it answers the demands of a man's nature. Man asks for but a word as a blessing from God, and in what manner is this message put before men(?) We do not want an answer to our demands which is so much divine and so much human, which divides itself into such components. Rather do we want such an answer as comes in the form of a living presence which inspires...
Jupiter was identified with the Greek god Zeus. He was the lightning god and various other functions were grouped around this one. The fear of lightning was very great among the Romans, and they held a lightning stroke to be a serious mark of the god's anger To appease it the necessary expiation was originally human sacrifices...
Mars was the sun god and around him was established the worship for the seasons. Elaborate ceremonies for the celebration of spring and autumn festivals were observed. The "October horse" was known to the early Romans as a corn demon or harvest divinity. He was slain in the fall but kept all winter and was believed to come to life again, in a manner, in the following spring...
...assumed. There are too many young men who think that religion is superficial, that it may be put on at will, and put off at will as best suits his convenience. But a true, deep-feeling religious life consists rather in a life of just relations to man and God, the appeal of the heart of the child to the heart of the Father. A man's rectitude of life is no less important, for if a man is destitute of justice he will be destitute of religion for "Whoever would be courageous in all things must be just...
...that man is decended from the ape, and said that in tracing the influence of this theory upon our ideas of moral and human life, he would group his work under the following heads: 1, Man's place in Nature; 2, The evolution of morals, 3, The nature of God; 4, Life and immortality. Every great religion has asserted that the arrival of man marked the final and highest stage of creation. In fact, the promise of immortality held out by every creed depends directly upon this assumption; for unless man is of more importance than all other living creatures...