Word: earth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nature as in spiritual things it is true that as you give just so shall you receive. Once the forces of nature were little utilized, but when man gave himself to them, that is to their study, they returned his pains a hundred fold. So to the husbandman the earth gives just in proportion as he gives himself to its cultivation. From this we must learn that we cannot gain anything without giving ourselves to it. We cannot become fine scholars or musicians without devoting ourselves to our work. In religion it is especially true that as you give...
Christ's answer to this question,. that what man has given up on earth shall be increased one hundred fold in heaven, cannot be taken literally. Jesus did not mean it as a reward or price for what had been given...
...Again and again he helped them by wonderful miracles, showing thus not by word but by deed, that they were his chosen people, and that it was His will that they should be freed. The best of all God's revelations to man was the life of Christ on earth. God wished to reval His perfect holiness to men and he did it in the life of Christ. He wished to reveal to men that there was another life after death and this he showed by Christ's resurrection. So always we see God revealing himself to us in action...
...time engrossing the thoughts of the artistic world,- the Realist and the Impressionist Schools. Realism is nothing more than detailism, the painting with the greatest possible technical accuracy of every feature of the subject in hand; while Impressionism is something not to be found in the sky above, the earth beneath, or the water below the earth; it is the generalizing, the expressing of merely the salient features of the subject...
...Donald preached at Vespers at Appleton Chapel yesterday from the text, "Set your affections on things above, not on things of the earth," taken from the third chapter of the Epistle to the Colossians. Everyone, he said, has before him the choice of what he shall do and how he shall do it. How he chooses is the best test of the man. Here in a University we are constantly called upon to choose between pleasure and duty, and even in our work we must always be choosing what sort of things we shall do. Here are many things...