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...fine saying of Lessing's: "Not the truth which one has arrived at, or thinks he has arrived at, but the honest zeal with which he has endeavored to follow truth makes the worth of a man. For it is not through the possession of truth but through the search after it that his powers expand, and in that alone consists his ever-growing perfection. Possession makes us easy, indolent, and proud. If God held all truth shut in his right hand, and in his left the single, inward, pure longing for truth, though with the condition of perpetually erring...
...acting from the most common of human impulses. "Solitude," on the other hand, while well told, derives its whole interest from the trials of an individual whom philosophical doubts have thrown out of harmony with the world. The meaning of the story is evasive, and to many who search for it will probably remain but imperfectly understood...
...Church Theological School, addressed the Christian Association in Holden Chapel last evening. He compared the Parable of the Pounds with that of the Talents. In the Parable of the Pounds the master is represented as rewarding his servants with valuable gifts. As he leaves home in search of new kingdoms he tells them that on his return each will be required to render an account of the manner in which he has spent his money. When he returns he learns that some of the servants have invested their wealth at interest and have made new fortunes. To these the master...
...more than this. Professor Hanus believes that no man, in search of a liberal education, can wholly overlook the subject of teaching. College men become leaders in their communities everywhere, and must, in large part, solve their problems. Among the problems of communities few are today receiving so much thought as that of public education. Some acquaintance with such problems and their most promising solutions is therefore a needed part of a well-rounded college course...
...lecture to be given before the Religious Union tonight deserves notice. Theosophy is a subject which has come to claim more and more attention in recent years, and, as the expression of a new method in the search for truth, to win the consideration of many of the most prominent living scientists. It is a subject which has so many suggestions to offer, that it can hardly afford to be neglected...