Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the spring particular attention is to be given by Capt. Henshaw to efficiency in base-running and bating. The nets will be in use daily, and downright, earnest work will be required of every candidate...
...filled with selfish and sordid purposes. People of the first class are successful simply because they have interest in the work itself. That interest is not purchased by bribery, is not caused by fear of consequences; but is present because God is working out his purposes through these earnest men and women. The man who works not with God belongs to the second class; the little capacity that he possesses is taken from him because he has no part in the advancement of the race. During the services Mr. Karl Pflengel, of Boston, sang the beautiful solo from Elijah...
...influenced Arabic literature in succeeding ages. they deserve the attention of every one who is interested in general literature or in the history of Islam-that religious system whose adherents are said to number two hundred millions, and whose rapid spread in Africa has been the cause of much earnest discussion, especially within the past year...
...improvement is mainly due to the men who have worked so faithfully on the paper through most of their college course and who have just left us. Fulsome praise is ever out of place and sounds conimonplace. But imitation is the sincerest flattery and it shall be the earnest endeavor of the present board to keep the paper up to the standard set by our predecessors. The pleasant memory they have left with us will go far towards had ping us to shoulder the responsibility and to work with zeal for the welfare of the paper...
...temple in Jerusalem first opened the eyes of the people to the new reformer. And His subsequent work proved Him to be no inconsequential dreamer, but a practical leader of men." Dr. Hale preached about twenty minutes with considerable fervor, and his hearers were benefited by his earnest words. The music for the evening was up to the usual standard of excellence. The anthems were "I will sing of Thy Power," by Sullivan, and Novello's "Incline Thy Ear." In the absence of Mr. Locke, Mr. L. S. Thompson played the voluntary and postludium, both of which were taken from...