Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some test of earnest and sincere purpose of discipleship for belief and for life is reasonably required for admission to the Christian Society. Accordingly, profession of the Apostles' Creed, as a summary of Christian belief, stands and has stood from early days along with renunciation of evil and the promise of obedience to God's commandments as a condition of baptism...
Once upon a time a wise Roman said, "The evil that men do lives after them...
Under the title, "The Making of the American Republic," Doubleday, Page & Company has just published a popular history of the United States by Archer Butler Hulbert. Professor Hulbert confesses at the outset that he is an optimist, a sincere disbeliever in the theory that the evil men do lives after them. He introduces the tricksters and rogues who play a part in the narrative of the countrys progress only when a knowledge of them is essential to a correct historical perspective. His hope is to show that the national difficulties of today and to-morrow are no more intricate...
...lack of justice I attribute much of communism and bolshevism which exists in this country today. To deny a communist the right of free speech in the street, or the privilege of marching down the street waving a red flag at the head of a column, only aggravates an evil. I am not a communist or a bolshevist, but I am sure that persecution only gives strength to these orders. In England there are far fewer of these elements than there are in this country, yet there the red flag to waved freely and the stump used often. England...
...Rightly or wrongly, football has become a matter of immense inportance to all college men. Its growth has been accompanied by the evil of over-emphasis of the individual, undying glory for the successful player, and censure, sometimes disgracefully severe, for the man who errs. Among the graduates of both Harvard and Yale there are men whose happiness has been seriously affected for a time as the result of mistakes made in a Harvard-Yale game. More than one player has gone down in college history as 'the man who fumbled the punt' or 'the man who missed the tackle...