Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Such poetry could not long hold sway. Soon there were men who thought seriously and felt earnestly. Such a man was Saint Francis, who led a merry life in his youth, but feeling a deep sense of the miserableness of common men, he turned to a life of quiet but joyful contemplation and fervid expression...
...Hadley took for his text, John IX: 25. He first gave a history of the mission. Twenty years ago Jerry McAuley a common river thief became converted and founded the mission. Since then missions have been established all over the world. They have been very successful. The men in the missions are all converts, and realize, as only such can, the terrible degredation of an outcast drunkard. With untiring patience they labor to rescue their fellow men. They work through faith in prayer and in Jesus Christ...
...must be religious ourselves. We should enter into the life of other students for the self culture it gives us and the stimulus for own work. We should take special care not to limit our work to any one class of men, remembering at the same time, however, that common sense is necessary...
...gives added fidelity to his employed as his part of the capital, but certainly this idea is not feasible in every business. Cooperation would carry the matter farther, would fuse the functions of employer and employed, and thus utilize the higher business abilities that are now latent in the common people. In his next lecture, Professor Peabody will consider the philosophy of the movement...
...Gladstone at Hawarden." An entertaining and very interesting sketch of "Art Schools of Paris' is contributed by Miss Lucy Hooper. Archibald Forbes tells the story of the Fall of Constantinople as it appeared to a war correspondent and Mr. George W. Cable speaks of "Education, for the Common People in the South...