Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...audience, from the text, "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief." Dr. Everett said: There are men today who are just as ardent, just as trustful in their faith in God, as there were in the days of martyrdom. Again there are men who are perfectly sincere in their belief, that there is nothing in the idea of a God who watches and cares for the mortals on the earth. But there is a third class, in whose hearts the cry of the poor father for a strengthening of his faith, would find a ready response. They are among those...
...impeach the integrity of Mr. Coffin; we cannot prove that his umpiring was intentionally unfair, nor can we prove that, in the case of the touchdown by Hallowell he gave a decision which he knew was wrong. It may have been with a most just purpose and the honest belief that there was interference that he gave his decision; but so evident was the fact that there was no interference and so universal has that been the opinion held by most of the spectators ever since, that Mr. Coffin has opened himself to the darkest suspicions. Mr. Coffin's umpiring...
...relation of the heathen Scandinavian to his God was a sort of a commercial one; when he wanted something he sacrificed to his God and only then. This sort of belief became unsatisfactory to the people shortly before the dawn of Christianity, and a sort of atheism...
...Christian work in college, we should forget differences in belief, keeping. only in mind the Christianity set forth by Christ...
...descendant of the English John of Guant earned for himself the title of the Navigator, by his expeditions along the coast of Africa, and in 1457 the King of Portugal authorized an expedition to the West. From 1474 on, the influence of Tuscanelli, the Florentine astronomer, was very great. Belief in the western passage was in the air, and in 1479 the theory of the western extension found its greatest adherent in the Italian wanderer who was destined to work out its solution...