Word: christian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into the sports and into the social and religious life of the college. But it was by his personal qualities that he won the affections of his immediate friends and the respect of all. His life was marked by the high purposes, the honesty, and the purity of a christian character. His bearing was manly and kindly toward...
...Coolidge's manly, christian character and general good-fellowship endeared him to his classmates and friends, by whom his early death will be sincerely mourned...
...worship of God must separate themselves from contact with men. We have adopted the Pauline idea: the theory of the church is coming more and more to be that strong character cannot be developed without contact with men, contact which cannot always be with good men. And so our Christian men live in the world. But living in the world does not necessarily imply that we should rashly thrust ourselves into temptation, and the question that confronts us is, How far is a man to put himself in the way of temptation, and to what degree is he called upon...
...unnamed New Englander has given $100,000 to which Japanese gentlemen have added $70,000 to found a Christian university in Japan...
...entitled "English" History by contemporary writers. The former volumes of this series have been exceptionably good, not only for general reading but for historical references. The book just issued proves to be in no wise inferior to the previous volumes. To mention the subject "The third Crusade of the Christians under Richard I of England" is enough at once to awaken an interest even in the casual reader, The doings of the doughty Richard Coeur de Lion, have always possessed that romantic air of mystery which surrounds the period of the middle ages; and in Mr. Archer's volume...