Word: clay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Leighton Parks preached in Appleton Chapel last night on ideas suggested by the parable in Jeremiah of the potter's house. In the parable there is an obvious object lesson. There are three things necessary for the formation of a bit of pottery, the clay, the wheel and the potter's hand. So it is in the formation of a human being; there is the body and the mind corresponding to the clay, experience, environment, corresponding to the wheel, God, back of all the work, corresponding to the potter...
...there is an exhortation as well as an object lesson in the parable. Unlike the clay the human being has power to resist the operation of the wheel and the potter's hand. A man predetermins his own course. He may from choice make himself, against conscience and God, bad. The responsibility, then, rests on each of us to cooperate with, rather than resist the forces which are shaping our lives...
Each of the five members of each team shot at thirty clay pidgeons at unknown angles...
...number. Of the twelve prose numbers, eight are directly concerned with events of the past or with people and places famous in our national history. Mr. W. E. Curtis contributes the first of a series of articles on "The South American Republics," and interesting accounts of Columbus, of "Henry Clay as Speaker of the House of Representatives," and of Governor Winthrop, also appear...
General references: Monroe's Declaration, Statesman's Manual, I, 460; Jefferson's letter of 24 Oct. 1823, Wharton's Digest. I, 269; Clay, 20 Niles Register, 301; Webster, Works III. 178-217; Blaine's dispatches, 15 June, 1881 and 1 Dec. 1881 in U. S. Foreign Relations, 1881, 131 and 147; Tucker's Monroe Doctrine; John A. Kasson, North Am. Review, 133, p.p. 241 and 543; N. A. Review, 130, 499; Dana's Wheaton, 97; Hart's Outline, 113. Gilmore's Monroe for exhaustive bibliography...