Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...results of this movement toward direct popular government have been important and good. The employee can now collect fair damages from his employer; in civil procedure the defendant must now convince one-fourth of the jury that he is innocent; judicial decisions cannot be reversed for trivial errors; railroads are kept in control by the club of the initiative and referendum; state officers are made to do their duties by the recall, stationed as a guard over them; a larger percentage of intelligent voters has come forward to run the government with wisdom; experts are planning and arguing...
Whether a man's doctrine be high or low, he recognizes in the communion the carrying to its highest point the idea of worship, so that it cannot be confused with mere inward meditation. The Christian declares that God, although the ultimate reality, is so far personal that he can enter into relations with man. The supernatural nature of the events which led to the founding of the Christian Church, the idea of the cross, and of the immortality of the soul, are quite alien to that closed circle contemplated by the materialist philosopher and the more ornamental theory...
...labor and wages in the care of buildings and grounds was $6296; for maintenance and repairs, $1236; for heat, $1150,; for insurance, $1020; and for water, $651. To the General Account is charged the office expenses, the salaries of those connected with the office, and all incidental expenses which cannot be properly charged to any special sport. To the item of Permanent Improvements were charged last year labor and cost of filling for the reclamation of about five acres of Soldiers Field, this ground being much needed for scrub games. It is planned to spend practically all of the available...
...must recognize that we are a part of the general system and that we cannot get away from it. The first need of the day is to shake men out of their complacency, and to show them the facts of the world in which they live. The one hopeful cry of our age is that for life. And it is hopeful because the Christian religion makes an appeal for a larger, fuller, and more abundant life...
...things essential to persuasion: the speaker must know what he is talking about, and he must mean what he says. Eloquence is the speech from heart to heart; a man must be moved in order to move others. If a man knows his subject and is sincere, he cannot fall to be an effective speaker. Clearness, which is a great aid to forceful speaking, aims at stating a truth so plainly that it cannot fail to be understood. If a man disputes a truth so stated, there is something wrong with him; his judgment is warped either by a false...