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Harvard Christian Association. Weekly Meeting. subject: The Heavenly Vision. Acts 26:19. Leader: Mr. F. L. Waldo. Holden Chapel...
...introducing Colonel Hallowell, President Eliot spoke of two elements in the personal courage of the men who fought in the war which were especially affecting and worthy of remembrance. In the first place they went through all the squalor, wretchedness and carnage of war without having any clear vision of their country's future...
Christ teaches mankind the broadminded faculty, the freedom from gross materialism, which in art we call imagination, in philosophy idealism, in religion, faith. This is the gift which the world of today especially needs. The age is a cyclops with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
...McPherson spoke of the necessity of faith in our modern life and read several passages in the Old and New Testaments, exemplifying the ideal of simple trust in God. In our own day genuine Christian faith is at once a vision and a venture, yet, although its visionary character leaves room for possible doubt and makes it seem perhaps fantastical, history has shown, as in the case of Rome before Christ's coming and of China today, that when men lose this visionary trust a low moral state is the inevitable result. With Christ returned the vision...
...were to unite with certain Yale graduates in inviting Captains Thorne and Brewer to a conference, and by which Yale should not invite Harvard in the normal way was therefore disaproved when submitted to the Harvard Athletic Committee, the body entrusted by the University authorities with the entire super vision and control of Harvard athletics. The committee has insisted also that inasmuch as there has been a public difference between the two universities, the settlement of that difference should be public also...