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...facts; but the facts need to be shown as having a spiritual import. The Father must not mean Creator merely, but the Righteous Friend and Lover of men, the source of all beneficence. The position we claim for the Son must not be so much a metaphysical as a moral supremacy. The old creeds, if moral interpretation be given them, even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith" like St. Paul, as "Faith which worketh by love...
...individual home and the community will not give moral or financial aid to the school--will not co-operate with the school unless they believe in it. Hence the necessity for conference between the homes and the school that the school may know and clearly understand the desires of the home in other than merely formal ways, and that the home may similarly understand and appreciate the difficulties and the efficacy of the school, as well as its short comings; and in order that each may recognize its own share of responsibility for the results actually achieved...
...Union. The second lecture will treat the policies initiated and carried out by the public men of the cotton states while the South maintained its ascendency in the Union. The third lecture will deal with the final struggle between the men of the lower South and the moral and economic forces which were gradually arrayed against slavery and the plantation system. Throughout the course the lecturer will endeavor first not so much to present new historical facts, as to make intelligible the mass of facts already known, and to exhibit the inside of a civilization usually discussed from the outside...
...Dean's philosophy and theological beliefs. Dr. Everett clearly realized that the spiritual life is one of constant self-surrender to the dictates of conscience and knowledge of the truth. He had little faith in sudden conversion, and believed true religion to be the slow, gradual growth in moral character that comes from babitual obedience to the highest ideals. His theology rested on the practical nature of religion; he believed that things are good in the measure that they are helpful, that things are evil in the measure that they harm. Dean Everett's great work was in the strong...
...lack of the sympathetic and ready counsel that he gave. Dr. Peabody spoke feelingly of the unconstrained relations between the Dean and his pupils, and gave an appreciative description of Dr. Everett as he appeared to his friends. He was a man of great clearness and loftiness of moral vision. He seemed to see and realize better than other men the high spiritual mysteries and truths of theology and poetry; he was one of the pure in heart who "shall see God." "Simplicity of character, charity of mind, purity of heart," were Dean Everett's characteristics. "The life...