Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...book does not enter the field of minute detail and criticism; it is "for those who would rather understand than judge him." Mr. Brown writes of his character charitably but without bias; he does not attempt to diagnose his faults or condone his vices, but he does not dwell upon them with distorting emphasis. The Creek and Seminole wars, the battle of New Orleans, the history of Jackson in politics are entertamingly fold and one comes partly to understand that influence which he held over so many in his time, and which softened even his enemies, to their consternation...
...Sacraments are not, in their outward form, to be viewed as essentials of Christianity. They have been altered again and again, and by the Friends and others, discarded. Yet in some form or another they must abide. We may dwell on the Sacraments generally, Baptism, and the Lord's Supper...