Word: secularization
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This Christlike conception can most fifly be applied to the life of today. All those professions are religious which are spent in the service of man, and those are secular which are spent in the service of self. Nothing is more irreligious than idleness wherever it exists. While a selfish poor man may be sometimes excused, there is nothing to be said for the idlerich man, who, knowing right, does nothing for the world. The world furnishes us the foundation of all life, which it is our duty to build upon. He who handles the pick or shovel is most...
...suggested in 1888 by the Alumni Association of Fairfield county, and in 1890 the Battell Professorship of Music was established, and the first instruction was given, the chair being filled by Dr. Gustave Stoeckel. The first subjects treated were Harmony, Counterpoint, Tones and the History of Music, sacred and secular. The degree of Bachelor of Music was established by the corporation in 1893, the course to be of two or three years. After Dr. Stoeckel's resignation in 1894, Mr. Horatio W. Parker, of Boston, was chosen to fill the chair, and still officiates, with the field of the curses...
...India, he said, religion has a different meaning from what it has in other parts of the world. Life there is not divided into two distinct phases, secular and religious. Religion is everything, embracing every department of life. Religion is not scientific, nor is science religious; they are identical. The essentials of such a life are, right knowledge, right belief and right conduct. The ethical code of right conduct. The ethical code of right conduct in India has a scientific basis. The results of every act of a man's life are carefully weighed and analyzed. Immortality of the soul...
...United States, the clergyman is simply a private citizen with no more powers or privileges than other citizens. In England until very recently a clergyman was prohibited by law from holding any secular office, or ever being elected a member of the House of Commons. Now, however, both in this country and in England, priests and deacons may relinquish their duties as clergymen and enter another profession...
...next week offers a very interesting programme of lectures and concerts. It is especially interesting to notice that Prince Serge Wolkonsky, who delighted so many of the students by his lecture Wednesday night, is to give another Ircture in Sanders Theatre Monday night. This time his theme will be secular rather than religious, and the broader field with which he will deal will probably attract enough more people to justify the change of place of holding the lecture from Sever 11 to Sanders...