The Churches and Educated Men: A Study of the Relation of the Church to Makers and Leaders of Public Opinion, Volume 3Pilgrim Press, 1904 - 305 páginas |
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American colleges Amherst College Ashbel Green Association became Bible study Bowdoin College Brotherhood cent century character Chris Christ Christian Activity church-membership college church college halls college student concerning considered conspicuous Dartmouth College decade declension denominations dents Dwight ebb-tide ence England estimate evangelical evidence exceedingly facts faith fifty furnish Hampden Sydney Harvard Harvard College hundred increasing indicate infidelity influence institutions intel intellectual ious leaders lege less ligious Litchfield County marked meetings ment Middlebury College ministry mission missionary movement nearly number of professing number of students organization percentage period piety pious prayer present President professing Christians professors of religion proportion ratio reached religious conditions religious interest respecting revival interest schools Seminary senior class skepticism spiritual awakening statement statistics Student Volunteer Movement theological things thought Thwing tian tion to-day truth undergraduate University whole Williams College Yale College
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Página 92 - He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them ; thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own.
Página 212 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Página 204 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Página 226 - Has it not always been the case, that the men who were first in the competition of the schools have been the first in the competition of life?
Página 121 - Th' eternal step of Progress beats To that great anthem, calm and slow, Which God repeats. Take heart ! the Waster builds again, — A charmed life old Goodness hath : The tares may perish, but the grain Is not for death. God works in all things ; all obey...
Página 207 - It is practical as well. The typical American Christian student despises cant and hypocrisy, and desires, above all else, reality in his Christian experience. He is not satisfied to limit the Bible to the realm of thought and discussion ; he seeks to bring it to bear upon his life, — to help him in his battle with temptation, to enable him to develop strong faith and a symmetrical character. Moreover he is not content to keep his religion to himself. He recognizes the force of Archbishop Whately's...
Página 72 - Harvard, was to combat the all but universal infidelity of the students of his new charge. Indeed, so far had the matter gone at New Haven that many of the Senior class " had assumed the names of the principal English and French infidels," and were generally known by these nicknames throughout the college.
Página 71 - Before he came college was in a most ungodly state. The college church was almost extinct. Most of the students were skeptical, and rowdies were plenty. Wine and liquors were kept in many rooms; intemperance, profanity, gambling, and licentiousness were common.
Página 25 - ... not contradicting, but showing all those marks of honor and reverence which are in praiseworthy use, saluting them with a bow, standing uncovered,
Página 36 - I enjoyed full assurance of his favour, for that time ; and my soul was unspeakably refreshed with divine and heavenly enjoyments. At this time especially, as well as some others, sundry passages of God's word opened to my soul with divine clearness, power, and sweetness, so as to appear exceeding precious, and with clear and certain evidence of its being the word of God.