Word: saviour
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...decided by the Corporation during the summer to participate in the restoration of St. Saviour's Church in Southwark, London, by presenting to it a memorial window of John Harvard. He was baptined in the church on Nov. 29, 1607, and it was therefore decided that the college of which he was the founder should take part in the work of restoring the ancient English building...
...Saviour's Church, which is situated in Wellington street, on the south, or Surrey, side of the English capital, is the oldest of the London churches. When it was built in the thirteenth century by Gifford, bishop of Winchester, it formed a part of the Augustinian Priory of St. Mary Overy, But in 1540 it was converted by Henry VIII into a parish church, and it has retained that character ever since. Reputed heretics were tried in the Lady Chapel in 1555, during the reign of "bloody" Queen Mary. In 1840 the old nave was taken down and an incongruous...
...keynote of these verses, Bishop Vincent said, is "God our Saviour," just as the keynote-the theme of themes of the Book of books is Salvation. Salvation is a state of perfect moral health, and of perfect adjustment to the spiritual world of which we are a part. Just as a child need not understand the complexity of electricity in order to turn on a light by merely moving a switch, so we need not know the philosophy of salvation to be saved. Salvation is possible and effective (through Christ); it is a reality...
...choir sang, "I will Greatly Rejoice," by Cruickshank; and "Keep Me, Saviour," by O. B. Brown. Master Garfield Stone sang "Angels Ever Bright and Fair," by Handel...
...every-day life. There can be no perplexity in regard to the redemption of the heathen or of mankind's living before the coming of Christ. Christ has been a saving power since the creation of the first man, and saves even those who are ignorant of their saviour. A man's salvation does not depend upon his interpretation of the truth of God, but upon his realization of it in the great principles of nature and life. Socrates was as truly saved by Christ as is any man nowadays...