Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anything of Christ. Such men are religious men, but not Christians-they live for themselves, instead of living for Christ. No man is a Christian who lives for himself. There is a practical difficulty in being beset by temptation; but there is no passion in man's nature that cannot be overcome. The principle in dealing with sin is not prohibition, but substitution. The only way to keep high is to keep in high company-to follow Christ. Every man should try Christianity; then his whole nature will be softened and will become more spiritualized. "Walk in the Spirit...
...each one speculate as he likes. The kingdom of heaven has twelve gates, and every gate is a pearl. It matters not through which gate you pass. Your Sunday school teacher may enter through one, your friend through another. Do not stay out yourself because you cannot enter in the same gate with them. Act as Christians. Associate learning with doing and not alone with thinking. The true Christian religion consists in acting as you think Christ would eat if he were in your place...
...with his latest? Ambition may urge him on. Sut the highest ambition is to serve others and minister to them, and this is what Christianity teaches. The danger comes from the chance that intellectual religion may take the place of moral religion and leave it standing. This cannot be and good come of it. Let the intellectual considerations have their place, and they but add to the man's Christianity by giving him stimulants and aid. But do not let them gain the mastery...
...evening the annual meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association was held in Holden Chapel before a moderately large attendance. In the absence of President H. Kuhn, '87, Mr. Paine, '88, called the meeting to order. The treasurer's report was then read but owing to lack of space it cannot be published till to-morrow...
...players to show courage, constancy, an intelligent willingness to meet and defeat physical dangers and an ability to think connectedly in the presence of physical dangers, to an extent offered by no other form of exercise.' The game that presents such an array of purely scientific and courageous features cannot fail to merit the most universal sanction and approval, and yet newspaper criticism doubtless caused the 'general disposition to consider the game one which is objectionable as a game for students who are gentlemen.' The criticisms passed upon the game as regards its innate roughness' and of its 'tendency...