Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second and last great difficulty in out way is the immense proportion which the rest of the universe bears to this planet. This makes many believe that God would not deign to notice our little earth. That the earth is small is no proof that God could not work wonders in it. As far as we have been able to ascertain by astronomical knowledge none of the other planets are or ever will be inhabited. Nothing has hitherto been adduced to show that the Christian faith is wrong. Astronomy never has and never will show us anything which conflicts with...
...ideas are visible only to the soul and not to the body, is closely connected with the Platonic idea of the soul. Plato believed the soul to be immortal. He believed in an ideal world above the heavens which were the real home of souls, exiled and imprisoned on earth...
There will also be a series of views illustrating the physiographic features of the land, showing stages of portions of the earth's surface from topographic youth to maturity...
...Samuel M. Crothers conducted the regular service in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon, taking as his text Mattew vi, 19 and 20, "Lay not up for yourselves teasures upon earth; but lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven...
...gods, represented as a dragon, is the primaeval chaos. She plans to overthrow the gods, her children, gathers an army of monsters, and puts Kingu, her son and only faithful child, in command. Both Anu, the god of the heavens, and Ea, the god of the waters under the earth, are turned back in fright before this army. These events occupy the first two tablets. The third tablet tells how Marduk, son of Ea, offers to oppose Tiamat, if the gods in reward will make him ruler over them. In the fourth tablet Marduk defeats Kingu's army, meets Tiamat...