Word: godding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days at Oxford under his great father. The speaker then proceeded to a critical estimate of Arnold's works, which he divided into five classes, The writings on English society were first taken up. In them one sees Arnold's critical faculty at its best. Culture was Arnold's god. The Greeks put a great emphasis on knowledge, the Jews on conduct. The two tendencies, the one towards Hellenism, and the other towards Hebraism, are visibly at work in modern society and Arnold's ideas of culture made room for both. Arnold was convinced, however, that English society he braized...
...Philip S. Moxom, of Boston, delivered a sermon last night on a text from Matthew vi: 10-"Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." This is the most universal prayer of mankind; it includes everything that can be asked for from God. It confesses the imperfection of the human being, of human institutions. It acknowledges the prevalence of weakness, sin and despair in the human heart. At the same time it expresses an unfaltering trust in the goodness and justice of God. It even expresses a belief that in the end the kingdom...
...Jeune's anthem "Jerusalem the Golden." Rev. F. G. Peabody led in prayer, and the forty-sixth Psalm was read responsively. The Rev. Dr. McKenzie preached a short sermon based on the words found in the fourteenth chapter of St. John, where the disciples, when asking to see God in person, are told by Jesus that "he that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father." We know that God is present everywhere, and that He is looking on us wherever we are. It is far different, however, to feel that He is near at hand, that he stands ready...
...wealth of spiritual resources that is awaiting the bidding of every Christian. It is a dull life that looks forward to mere resistance, thinking that if it is not wholly conquered by temptation it has done well; the true Christian puts all his forces at work to trust God for support, and then the temptations lose the battle as completely as did the Syrian host...
...chapel, also on the first floor, about one hundred can be accommodated. Services are held every Sunday morning at 10.30, and a lecture at 4 in the afternoon. A course of lectures, beginning February 4th, is to be given by Rev. Frank Sewall of Washington, the general subject being, "God is knowable." The public is cordially invited to these and all other similar exercises...