Word: truthfully
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Bible in its Relation to Modern Problems. There is, said Dr. Abbott, a personal God, an infinite being who thinks and feels, a being who has made man in his own image, able to communicate himself to man and to effect his life. Through the ministration of divine spirit, truth may be revealed. It is the generally church belief that the Bible is the real inspired revelation of God. The book is a dead thing and cannot be inspired; the writers were inspired, and, being quickened by the spirit of God, truth was flashed over their vision and so, through...
...Bible is not an infallible guide,- it was never meant for that. For then people would never think for themselves. The book is not to save us from the trouble of living and thinking, but to inspire us to work for a spiritual revelation, to wrestle for the truth, and, by our own efforts...
...Origin of Kant's Philosophy is the Problem of Human Reason as the Eighteenth Century had developed this problem. The problem was: How can the Truth which not only Theology, but also common sense and natural science pretend to know about our world, be defended against skepticism? Our human powers being once for all so limited, how can any genuine truth of any sort be known...
...state of affairs which would be ridiculous in any college and which is far from what we enjoy. We do not want graduates of other colleges to come to Harvard who cannot feel the spirit of the institution, and who, not taking the trouble to learn the whole truth, send home a letter of falsehoods and misrepresentations. It would be better to have no graduate department than to have such men here...
...this afternoon will be watched by all rowing men with interest. For the past few years Cornell has entertained a remarkably boastful spirit toward all her crews and other athletic teams and has expressed unusual sentiments whenever the larger colleges have refused to enter a contest with them. The truth is that Cornell athletics have not heretofore been up to a high standard, but that they are improving rapidly, and the team may be expected to put up a good game this afternoon...