Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fundamental part of its doctrine. Religion-less humanitarianism could offer as a motive nothing more than a sense of the wrongs of humanity. Christianity had as its motive the stirring belief - the divinity of each human soul. The power of Christian humanitarianism lay in its threefold presentation - by the Gospel, Preaching and the Church. Christianity had proved in the past to be, and always would prove to be the sole permanent strength of humanitarianism...
...relation of the ministry and the church to social problems has been successfully inaugurated here this week. Dr. Gladden is a prominent representative of the increasing number of younger clergymen in the Congregational body who are not afraid to grapple with socialism and in the light of the gospel they preach, to unmask its errors and acknowledge its elements of strength. The present course of lectures is the outcome of a year's close study and Dr. Gladden comes to his audience with new material, carefully matured suggestions for action and that vigor of treatment with which your own citizens...
...self-made" men and home made educations and cultured men as superfluous things. The newspaper that appeals to the largest and most ignorant audience is sure to fill its columns with just such nonsense as this; and just such nonsense as this is accepted by half its readers as gospel truth, and a reason upon which to most vigorously malign and blaspheme at colleges...
...18th century came the struggle about church discipline. There was a bursting open of the tight compact body of technical sainthood. Increase Mather, the great exponent of the genius and nature out of which the college sprang, published on the 1st of March, 1700, his "Order of the Gospel Justified." "Sundry ministers of the Gospel in New England" answered him. The question was who should be counted true subjects of the Christian sacraments. When Increase Mather, with his son Cotton was defeated, it was a sign that the earnestness which existed in human life at-large had made itself felt...
...faculty. Moreover, that little benefit is derived from the service by the students at large is generally acknowledged. Taking into consideration that attendance is compulsory, and with all due respect to the faculty, we think we but echo the common sentiment of the college in saying that the gospel, as preached to us, is not just what it should be. When we consider that the four years of college life will determine our religious convictions in great part, we think that the subject should be presented to us in the best manner possible, and not in such...