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This the truth of man's redemption. As any man or any institution feels and claims around the life, as the element n which it is to live - the sympathy of God and the perfectability of man, that man or institution is redeemed, its fetters and restraints give way and it goes forward to whatever growth and glory it is in the line of its being to attain...
...remind you of how in these more recent days, in the third and fourth quarters of this 19th century, technical theology itself was broken open and mingled itself with life? New sciences have claimed that they, too, have revelations to give us of the will and ways of God. The actual life of men, the problems of the personal soul, the perplexities of social life; these, as well as the abstractions of the intellect, have proved their power to awaken doubt and to inspire faith. You cannot separate theology any longer by sharp lines from psychology and sociology. The open...
...members of the great sacred nation, and there we find our answer: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever." And what and who is Jesus Christ? In reverence and humility, let us give our answer. He is the meeting of the divine and the human. The presence of God in humanity, the perfection of humanity in God. The divine made human, the human proves to be capable of union with the divine. The utterances, therefore, of the nearness and the love of God, and of the possibility of man. Once in the ages came the wondrous life, but what...
...duty of an anniversary to test and recognize the relation in which a man or a venerable college stands to this element of the Christhood, to the goodness of God and the greatness of man as making together the atmosphere of life. Think, then, about the history of our college as we hurriedly traced it. Is its true explanation here? Has all this constant enlargement of its life been moving toward the great truths of the goodness of God and the sublime capacity of man. It must be so. Our progress of these two centuries and a half would...
...then, by the way, discovering a bit of truth which had not been known before, now and then, by the way, casting out a bit of error which had been proved untrue, if all the time when she has been seeming to herself to be doing only this, God has been bearing testimony in her to the nearness of his love and to the divineness of manhood as his child, now, at her festival, when she gathers all history up into her consciousness and stands in awe before herself, now is the time for her to boldly recognize...