Word: defiantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tells what the vision means to him. He sees first in the Lord strength and round about that strength beauty. Man has not always seen God as John saw him. There was a time when some men saw but the sovereign quality in him, and they were either defiant or distrustful; others saw but the beauty and mercy, there was a cross for no one, a caress for everyone. But we must see both the cross and the throne if we would have a true conception of God. The text also shows the order of these qualities in the Christian...
...ourselves ready to obey. Many knew by experience that unquestioning obedience was right. We know what the name Christ means; we know what He was on earth and what His standard is. We can trust Him, simply because He is Jesus. We must become children again, not rebellions, not defiant, not meagre; but simple and devoted. When we hear His voice, there can never be any doubt as to what He wants of us. If we listen and obey, there will never be a mistake. The future will lose its mystery and we shall be ready for obience...
...besides this our "friend of humanity" proposes to put all corporations under government control and cites many good authorities to support him in this and the taxation question. The "Problem" being solved he closes with the defiant remark that "if this be socialism, I am a socialist. . . ." Such books seldom do good, yet they often have their use. Let us hope this one may affect any mind that takes it up for good. But there is always a certain feeling of disapprobation accompanying anything of this sort when at the close one finds that the author does not wish...
...convinced against his will," the old proverb runs, "has the same opinion still," and we are faint to believe that this defiant attitude represents the present state of mind of our brethren of the News. "To show that we were right in the grounds we took," says the News, after reading our disproof of their editorial, "we published some facts which we obtained with great care, and which we know to be accurate." How accurate these "facts" were, our readers had an opportunity of judging by reading the letters we published, written by the managers of the teams called...
...defiant man is more common, and on the whole the more manly type, exemplified by heroes and stubborn men everywhere. Now neither of these classes of men can really justify their position. If they keep on growing on all sides of their nature, they will inevitably come to see that this individualism is very petty; that all of importance in their lives depends upon living, active union with other beings. This is the lesson that Faust, for example, learns through the keen-witted criticism of Mephistopheles. Experience, in short, teaches everybody finally that as an individual...