Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...before the Renaissance. It cannot be possible that the "almighty dollar" is to be the only issue from this wonderful new world. Positive thought must be substituted for negative, and it may be that a new poetic energy will rise from among the hot spirits of the Socialists. The gospel of love extended to embrace the happiness of the whole world is the hope and salvation of the future...
...pews of Appleton Chapel were well filled, on Sunday evening, with students and visitors. The Rev. Dr. Hale conducted the services. He did not confine himself to any one text, but took the third chapter of the Gospel of St. John as a basis for his sermon. He stated primarily that he would discuss the chronology of the first part only of the life of Christ, leaving the chronology of the second part until the following Sunday. He spoke in substance as follows: "The narrative of the first half of the life of Christ was so gloomy and apparently unproductive...
...David Lathrop Hunn, aged 98 years, the oldest graduate of Yale College, has preached the gospel to three generations, and is still active in the work, especially among the children at Buffalo...
...language used in the schools, thus the people have a community of feeling and thought, and the common use of the English tongue is the first step in their further education and advancement. The orders issued in regard to this do not as yet affect the preaching of the gospel in the churches, nor in any way hamper the missionaries in their efforts to give the tribes a knowledge of the Christian religion. But it is insisted upon that the schools established for the education of the younger generations shall teach the language of the country of which their pupils...
...manner in which they would broaden out in the course of two centuries and make the purpose for which they were originally intended subservient to the interests of the more liberal education. As is well known, Harvard was originally founded as a college to train ministers of the gospel; now the college has broadened into a university, while the Divinity School is merely an important factor, but no more. The same is true with the older institutions. and it is only at a comparatively recent date that institutions of learning are founded and endowed in the true sense...