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Excerpt from Religious Thought at the University of Michigan: Being Addresses Delivered at the Sunday Morning
The series had its origin in a suggestion that the Associa tion avail itself of the Sunday morning services to obtain a record of the religious thought of the University. Most of the University instructors, it was pointed out, were interested, speculatively as well as practically, in matters of religion. Among them a great deal of quiet but active thinking about religious questions was continually gowg on, of which students had but occasional intimations. Why should not the Sun day morning exercises be made a channel through which this thought could find expression? The suggestion was taken up and acted upon. Provided with a list of topics, a committee. Of the Association called upon members of the University teaching force and asked them to prepare papers for the Sun day morning services. The requests met with an immediate and hearty response, so that in February, 1892, the committee was able to prepare and announce a programme of ten ad dresses to extend through the merit four months. The series, begun Feb. 14 with a paper by Prof. Carbart on God and Nature (p. Was brought to a close May 15 with the ad dress by President Angell which stands at the beginning of the present collection.
During this time each paper after it had been delivered, was published in pamphlet form as a supplement to the Month ly Bulletin of the Association, and sold to the students at a nominal price. The pamphlets were readily disposed of, and at the close of the year there appeared to be a demand for a more permanent and dignified issue of the addresses. Since, how ever, the material was not sufficient to form a volume of any considerable bulk, it seemed best, by arranging for a second series of addresses, to increase the amount to the requisite proportions. The efforts of the committee were again rewarded.
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