Word: timed
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...Lord about baptizing in the Name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost became a baptismal confession; and these were drawn out into the creeds which lasted through the Middle Ages. At the Reformation and since, many confessions have been framed, though we all feel, with Harnack, that the time for fresh ones is passed. We have to consider; the value of creeds and confessions, their danger, and by examining some of the prominent doctrines to show their bearing on life and progress...
...Trent may be purified by this moralization: the Papacy becomes the assertion of the need of unity: Trans substantiation the change of the 'idea' which makes us feel the presence of Christ: Purgatory the hope of restoration for imperfect souls. So, in the dominant belief of a later time, inspiration becomes the association not only of Prophets and Apostles but of all Christ like men and writings in the redemptive, uplifting work of the Saviour. The Atonement in a reconciliation in mind and deed to God through the self-offering of Christ which begets self-sacrifice in us. The Judgment...
...Freshman in 1845" consists of extracts made by Ex-Congressman Davis '49, from an old letter received by him from one of his classmates. It is full of the customs of the time, such as "kicking football in the Delta every evening." which will interest all who read...
...through private initiative and generosity that the academies arose to take up the work which the grammar schools had failed to perform. The academies demonstrated, at the same time, the possibility of a secondary education adapted to the special needs and briefer educational careers of non-collegiate pupils of both sexes. Thus the enthusiastic support of our public high schools as we know them today was ultimately brought about during the years from 1826 to the present time. Although this country, through the state of Massachusetts, was very early committed to the maintenance of secondary schools supported partly or wholly...
...last two hundred years have accordingly given an enlarged significance to the secondary education. During those years the public secondary school has grown into the stature of an independent educational institution with a function of its own, and at the same time it has never ceased to be closely connected with the college. That is, the distinction between the two historical functions of secondary education, preparation for the college and preparation for life, once very marked, is disappearing. Whether it will wholly disappear within a generation or two can only be conjectured...