The religious meetings held in Holden on Sunday evenings for the past few weeks have been so well attended as to attract the attention not only of those directly connected with the university, but of others who know Harvard only by name and reputation. Some papers go so far as to head their reports with, "Revival at Harvard," a heading which hardly corresponds to the state of feeling that exists here, if to "revival" we must give the common newspaper meaning. Still on the part of many members of the college greater interest in matters of a religious character has been awakened, and with it has come a desire to give religious subjects a fair and candid consideration. The question of religion is a question that every man must decide for himself. Indifference to it, as to the important questions of the day, is inconsistent with the requirements of a liberal education. That Harvard is waking from this indifference, which so many of those who have never been in Cambridge, especially the editors of religious journals have bitterly decried, is a good sign. Certainly indifference is worse than either atheism or theism. Theist and atheist alike may well complain of it.
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