Word: evil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been believed for centuries that the Kingdom of Heaven lies on the other side of death. "This," said Judge Smith, "is like saying that one moves toward an object while going in the other direction." Evil is the origin of death, and how can evil possibly lead...
...subject which interests the public of today is how to gain dominion over adverse conditions. Dominion is not the power to work against the natural laws of the universe, or against one another, but is "the power to overcome evil by good." There are three requirements to be met before man's dominion can be realized. First: Man cannot exist separate from God. To find the real man we must therefore begin with God; that is, we must know God. Second: We must understand what is to be overcome. The human mind is like an atmosphere in which both evil...
...seven cornices on the mountain of Purgatory, up which the pilgrim must climb, are the sins of pride, envy, anger, gloomy indifference, avarice, lust, and gluttony. Pride is a sin against God, for it makes man self-centered. Envy is the evil eye that looks with malignant intent upon the more successful man. Gloomy indifference is that dangerous state of mind which leads one finally to embrace sin. Lust is the flame through which every man and woman must sometime pass,--namely, the desires of the flesh...
...summit of Purgatory is the "earthly Paradise" where the voluntary pilgrim receives the mitre, symbolic of self-mastery, and the crown, the symbol of freedom of his soul. The pilgrim then bathes in the river Lethe and forgets all that is evil--symbolic of the forgiveness of sins. With renewed soul and spirit he is now, ready for Heaven and for the love and presence...
...passing of the judge, the disappearance of the great court-room advocates, the popular distrust of courts, and the disposition of rich business men and corporations to avoid litigation and "beat the law" so far as they safely can, and even farther have constituted a vicious circle of evil tendencies in both theory and practice, the effects of which on public opinion in the United States have been plain, widespread and deeply to be deplored...