Word: errors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...innerrancy of the Scriptures has done not a little to weaken the faith of the church. The denial that has been most felt has been made not by infidels and condescending young agnostics, but by honest and reverend scholars. When we are told that the Bible contains one error, or two errors, we often ask, how then can we be sure that there are no more? But the Bible does not err in anything that it claims for itself, namely, that it is a revelation of God's mercy and love and truth. Occasional anachronisms and inaccuracies in the text...
...screen is suddenly dropped and the subject strikes as quickly and accurately as possible a white spot in the centre of the carriage. The time from the dropping of the screen to the hitting of the dot is measured in hundredths of seconds by a pendulum chronometer and the error of the blow to the right or left of the center, is registered automatically. This apparatus makes it possible to test two qualifications most necessary for a good boxer, fencer, football or tennis player, that is, quickness of sight and accuracy of motor response...
...lack of originality; but this fault is perhaps more excusable than many others which are generally forced on the notice of the reader. The only serious mistake can unfortunately be laid to the charge of no one in particular; but the unknown author of "A Poet" is sadly in error when, in his vain struggle to write verse, he says, "My words my servants are." To make this in any way credible, it would have to be added that they serve him but poorly...
Last evening at Appleton Chapel, Rev. Washington Gladden took for his text: And there was evening and there was morning, one day. The sermon was a protest against the too common error of studying natural life by analytical methods, of investigating one side of man's character in the hope of gaining thereby a clear understanding of his whole nature...
...desire to call attention to an error in this week's calendar. It is stated that Dr. Gladden may be found in Wadsworth House, No. 1, every morning from 9 to 11. Dr. Gladden extends these hours to 12.30 each morning...