Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Christ's answer to this question,. that what man has given up on earth shall be increased one hundred fold in heaven, cannot be taken literally. Jesus did not mean it as a reward or price for what had been given...
...students, those who had the arrangements in charge took pains to inquire at the office if Sanders Theatre could be had at the time. It was made plain that there was a possibility that Mr. Irving could not lecture except in the forenoon. In reply to this no discouraging answer was given. In fact, there was no intimation that any objections whatever would be raised. Not long after, a letter was sent to Mr. Irving begging him to set the hour in the afternoon if possible. He replied that it was very difficult to get out to Cambridge...
...branches of the service. It has been objected to this that the examinations could not be adequate, and would be easily passed by young and inexperienced men. Such is far from being the case. The questions asked are invariably such as need experience and special fitness to answer them, as is amply proved by the fact that almost without exception the men who have been appointed on probation after examination have had their appointments confirmed. Two certificates of character which are required, combine with the examinations to ensure a high grade of officials, and the system of marking eliminates entirely...
...answer to the call about sixty men presented themselves, and were given a short run and gymnastic exercises. The men from last year's nine were: Speer, right field; Stephenson, first base; Hedges, second base; Arbuthnot, third base; Greenway, catcher; Rustin, third base; Carter, pitcher; Bigelow, substitute out field; Case, left field, and Warner substitute pitcher...
...same trouble confronts us today under different aspects, in the struggle between labor and capital. The man with the measuring line comes with his same answer, the difficulty is insurmountable; it lies in human nature, but God is with the right and order will of necessity grow out of this perplexed struggle...