Word: centurion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Vesper service yesterday was conducted by Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., who took his text from the story of Christ and the centurion, Matthew...
Christ praised the centurion because it was this soldierly quality that he wanted his disciples to have - the power to obey, and growing out of that, the power to command. We need to follow the centurion's example today. The scholar has first to learn to obey, to conform to rigid discipline, before he reaches the point where he is qualified to choose his own course of study. Obedience is the first lesson which the business man has to learn. In the moral world, training and discipline are absolutely necessary to the man who would withstand sudden temptation. He must...