Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Peabody chose for his text: "Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the signs of the times." He said in part: The period just before us is the greatest period in the history of the world. The man who is to live during the next twenty-five years is to see greater achievements in thought than we have yet seen. Before this future stands the young man setting himself to the task of discerning the signs of the times...
...connection with another passage in the same chapter, Dr. Abbott spoke of our ability ot discern good and evil. He said that man is naturally bad, and in bearing this load of evil his moral faculties are impaired. To develop this power of discernment is life's hardest task and the one upon which we must bestow our greatest care. Every familiarity with evil undermines our moral nature and strengthens the evil that is in us. On the other hand our associations with good break down the wrong and build up the right. God's aid alone is able...
...class takes away much of the spontaneous expression of feeling which at other times it was so easy to give, still after a class has finished its course and done all its work it is easier to take a more comprehensive glance at the class as a whole, and discern its true excellencies. The claim of a class to distinction is generally measured nowadays by its success or failure in athletics. Although Ninety-two athletes have not shone especially brilliantly on university teams, they still have a record in athletics of which no class could be ashamed, and ever since...
...perverse multitude it exercises a sovereign, compulsory sway, bidding them fear and keep silence, on the ground of its own right Divine to rule them. And for that select number who feel themselves, as it were, individually addressed by the invitation of his example: 'By degrees they would discern more and more the traces of unearthly majesty about him; they would witness from time to time his trial under the various events of life and would still find, whether they looked above or below, that he rose higher and was based deeper than they could ascertain by measurement. Then...
...sectarianism. We have no doubt that the Puritan founder of the series would be amazed at the prospect of a Roman Catholic delivering a lecture in this course, but now-a-days we feel ourselves able to listen to the words of both creeds, sure that we shall discern the truth. The course has been established many years; it has always attracted renowned men and been followed with great interest...