Word: problems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first problem, then, that confronts us in the study of the religion of the Israelites is their idea of God. Their pursuit of this idea was characterized by the most remarkable directness of purpose and perseverance. The result was monotheism. Many generations of men "toiled in thought" before the world arrived at that conception of one over-ruling deity which is as natural to us as the air we breath. At the time of the prophets the thinking men of all nations were engaged in an intense and almost vain struggle to grasp the idea of one God. Great minds...
...would be interesting to know to what the success of the Israelites in solving the great problem was due. The rigidity of their national feeling doubtless taught them to think no other god but theirs necessary for the world. Yet they do not seem in the beginning to have questioned that the god of the Ammonites ruled in his own territory, and whenever occasion offered they themselves fell to worshiping the deities of the neighboring peoples. It is only by gradual evolution that the Israelites became monotheists, and we are driven in the last resort to account for their final...
...monotheism which the Hebrews, by whatever process, finally attained must not be looked upon as a good in itself. Monotheistic doctrines might well coexist with an evil state of society. It was because the prophets always attacked the theological problem from its ethical side that we owe such an immeasurable debt to the civilization which produced Amos and Isaiah...
Assuming, for argument's sake, that neither Harvard nor Yale has solved the problem, let us see what the past few years have shown. First Yale beat us from 1886 to 1890. In these 5 years the average stroke was: Yale 35 1-2, 33, 34, 32, 34 1-2, or an average for the 5 years of 33.8. Harvard's average was: 37, 34, 37 1-2. 32, 36.3, or for the 5 years 35.4. Second, Harvard was victor in '82, '83 and '85. Our average stroke each year...
...Delta Psi Lodge, and the third on Missions at Sigma Phi Place. More than thirty men were present at each of these conferences; the delegations from each institution being divided as evenly as possible among them. At these informal meetings the delegates fixed their attention on a single problem, and by exchanging thoughts and comparing experiences in regard to it, gained help in solving the peculiar phase of the problem as it appeared in their different institutions...