Word: likely
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...beginning, as at Pentecost, no form of adherence was required: Afterwards some simple form like, "I believe that Jesus is the Son of God," was the condition of baptism. Then the words of our Lord about baptizing in the Name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost became a baptismal confession; and these were drawn out into the creeds which lasted through the Middle Ages. At the Reformation and since, many confessions have been framed, though we all feel, with Harnack, that the time for fresh ones is passed. We have to consider; the value of creeds and confessions, their danger...
...this need. The social spirit makes us wish to find some expression which embodies our agreement and union. The Gospel promises are made not to belief only, but to confession of belief. The Greeks called the creeds symbols, that is, signs or watchwords. A single word, like Amen, Hallelujah, or the Dervishes' cry "La illah 'llah" (no God but God) kindles enthusiasm when pronounced by many together with conviction. So the Christian creeds, believed and outspoken produce mutual confidence and strengthen faith and zeal...
...Sargent exhibited before the Boston Physical Education Society, last night in the Gymnasium a new invention called an 'inomotor' for a better development of the body than can be brought about by the old forms of apparatus. This new invention which is a good deal like a sliding rowing seat in appearance, is intended to impel boats, carriages and bicycles by means of arm and leg power. The operator sits on a sliding seat, puts his feet in a sliding boot rest, and grasps a lever in each hand. With a simultaneous use of both legs and body...
...special object of the Lord's Supper was social religion, to bind Christ's followers together. It was grafted on the Passover and, like it, was a family meal. All the names used for it, the Supper the Eucharist or thanksgiving (like Grace after meat) the Greek and Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache...
...admirable quality of the book is that it may be used in schools, like the handbooks that have preceded it, as a work of reference; and at the same time it contains the most mature and most distinctive literary appreciation of American authors that has yet been printed in methodical form...