Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Drummond then spoke most earnestly on the subject of Christianity. He had not come here to preach, but to help-to try to remove the misconception in men's minds in regard to Christianity. In most American colleges, men don't know much about Christianity. In Scotland they are brought up on religion and see more of the questions which puzzle American students. Christ's yoke is no bondage as many men think. What is a yoke for? A yoke is a wooden collar intended to lighten the ox's burden. So Christ's yoke is put upon...
...They Come," No. Am. Rewiew, April, '82; Report of Come. of Immigration of Dakota, 1885-86, p. 47; Meyer's Report on Immigration, 2; Kapp's Immigration, 150; Reports of Consuls, 1887-48, 55, 63, 65, 94, 97, 103, 121, 123, 137, 139, 143, 148, 150, 151; Lalor's and Appleton's Cyclopedias (as above); U. S. Statistical Abstracts...
...three ways upon life. It leavens it, because it raises man and his surroundings out of the earthly considerations that engulf him; it is the half of life, because through its influence the life of cities is preserved. London and New York have places where religion has not come, and these are festering and rotten. It is the light of life, because by Christianity we may see the way to the real life to come...
...speaker then turned to college life, to the occasions to be made on leaving college. What should a man do 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...
...exceptionally large. The number of men from Chicago has been largely augmented, but Philadelphia shows signs of weakness, perhaps from the fact that the University of Pennsylvania has sprung into such prominence during the past few years. With the exception of Chicago, the western cities have not quite come up to the mark...