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Whatever else new criticism may do, it tends to make the Bible live. The old testament, regarded uncritically, has been to many a pure muddle, a strange object of perplexity. The new criticism makes of the old testament a living growth,- one sees it vividly. In the study by comparative method one feels a repulsion in comparing the Bible with other sacred writings. It is a most stimulating method. The attempt to compare is most profitable to the student, to set familiar literature side by side with the Bible...
...discovered that religion is not primarily a matter of opinion, but a matter of life. The Bible has been called a biography, but it is always life speaking to life. The personalities of the Bible speak from age to age. The greatest word of the Bible is "Because I live, ye shall live also." It is not thought to thought, opinion to opinion, but life that brings religion and keeps it new forever...
...tempted to waste the valuable present. A generation ago most of the preaching from the pulpit called attention to the future eternal life; now our ministers remind us of our present eternal life All college men are already in their life work and if it is worth while to live it is worth while to make the most of life. We all ought to make a forward movement...
...which is so little understood and so beneficial as the Foxcroft Club. The club is essentially a dining club. Last year it became apparent to a few of the officers of the college that something must be done to accommodate the constantly increasing number of men who do not live in the immediate vicinity of the college but who require some quiet room in which to study during the day, and some place in which to get inexpensive lunches. The corporation was induced to buy the house at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland Streets, to fit up the rooms...
Into that faith let us all enter. In it let us all abide. To them who live in it the incorruptible crown is always summoning the willing energies, and the willing energies, hearing their true summons, are always eager to respond. Beyond the little struggles always stretches the great race course with its shining prize-character and service. Nothing can satisfy the soul but them. The soul finds them when it finds God. The soul finds God when it finds them. May we all find them and God, and so attain the crown of life. Amen...