Word: command
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There come times in the lives of all classes and races of men when they hear with perfect distinctness, the command "be ye perfect," It comes in the time of solitude when men are apt to be thinking of self and urges them to new endeavor. Moreover men are perfectly conscious that until they try to be better they have neglected the first essential to the truest type of life. Though the command is easy to hear it is often very difficult to obey. The strength of the passions is constantly at work to keep a man where...
...personality which saves men is often the object of merely earthly love, the mother or father, but in extremity. souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...
Hampton Institute is situated on a point of land in the Chesyeake Bay. It was there that the cargoes of slaves were landed and the place where the Indian was first baptized. General Armstrong who was in command of some negro troops at his place during the war, afterwards thought what a grand work could be done with the colored race at that place. A few years later the Institute was founded and Mr. Armstrong was at its head...
...especially to them that such a result will prove beneficial. Thus there will be an improvement in composition not only of college candidates, but, broader still, of all grammar school graduates. And it is this broad and humane view of the subject that must affect all alike and should command the attention of students and schools and colleges, in order that this important subject of English rhetoric and composition may be discussed and steps taken for its improvement...
Religion with its simple command from God "give me thy soul" invariably gives liberty. The religious man ceases to worry about little trouble - his whole nature feels centred in one great interest and there is no room for worry. Professor Peabody then made an appeal to the students to begin before the cares of the year really come, to take an interest in religious matters and in the exercises of the chapel...