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...should be taught to respect the forms of religion as well as religion itself. A fruitful source of irreligion is mutual denunciation among sects. Nobody knows how to teach morality effectively without religion. In the classroom the teachers can demonstrate that science is creating a very spiritual idea of God, and that there is no real incompatibility between religion and science...
...higher, and finer things of life. That the so-called daily prayers at Harvard fail in this purpose, is too true. They stimulate few or none toward better actions. The failure, however, is merely because they are not prayers. They are an attempt to unite the worship of God with a police regulation. Such a confusion of acts of devotion with affairs of ordinary college discipline must inevitably destroy in us all feelings of sentiment, and reverence. Under the present system we always have a lurking idea that we are worshipping only the Dean and the Faculty. Thus compulsion takes...
...methods based upon entirely different theories of education than those which are now accepted, and offends the sense of justice as much as the refusal to give due weight to the testimony of an honest man simply because he says that he does not know whether there is a God...
...known to all who are interested in the economic literature of the United States, as the author of the "Nation." This book, which appeared in war times, is regarded by many as marking an epoch in our economic study. Others are more familiar with Dr. Mulford's "Republic of God," a religious work of much merit. Although the Theological Seminary is not a part of our own university, yet its proximity has given rise to a feeling of kindly interest, which expresses itself at this time in a realization on our part of the loss of an able professor...
...apologies. This having been amicably settled, and the cuffs and collars carefully adjusted, the game continued. Soon the velvety sphere was in the possession of a wearer of the pink. As he ran down the field, the ease of his motion, the exquisite mould of his features, and the god like brilliancy of his diamond shirt stud glistening in the sun-light, drew forth long and continued applause. A touch-down was made, but, out of courtesty to Yale, who had not yet scored, no attempt was made for a goal. An intermission of half an hour followed, during which...