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...bank above high-water mark. Robinson, the new boat-builder, is now well started on a single, and when this is finished he will begin an eight-oar shell. He will not, however, have the time to build many new boats, as several of the old ones need repairing, and there is a good deal of work to be done in fitting up the rowing tank according to the plans of Professor Hollis...
Most men feel a need, when they have some deep feeling, of expressing it. Goethe said that all his poetry was due to 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...
...Aposties' Creed is praised because it is a statement of 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...
...church ordinances and rites? Men are baptized in Christ's name, they take the Lord's Supper and worship in his name, and all these sacraments are symbols of the communion they hold with Him. Yet it is perfectly plain that there will be come men who will not need these sacraments; they may keep in touch with God without them. Toward these men there should be no false intolerance. Church sacraments have their definite spheres of influence, and after all, they are but symbols of the real heart worship. Christ does not ask, and men need not ask, that...
DEAR SIR:--I am authorized by the Woman's Army and Navy League to address you in behalf of our soldiers in the field, who are greatly in need of reading matter. Many of the men are studying for commissions and have appealed to us for text books...