Word: faith
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lisette--wise beyond her years. She tells slow-witted Sganarelle that it will be a death-bed unless physicians are summoned. There is safety in numbers thinks the old man, and four doctors answer his call--pure figures of burlesque, and a little bitter burlesque, for Moliere had small faith in the pretentious practitioners of his time. They are portentously solemn, self-important, foolish and comic. It is the fifth physician who replaces them (no other than the disguised Clitandre) who works an expeditious cure. This short farce is all prose, all travesty, and all a thing to be acted...
...Israel was tossed between the opposing factions. There was also religious unrest, and men were tossed back and forth like shuttle cocks between superstition and atheism. In the midst of this confusion, the prophet, Isaiah, tells the people not to worry about political and social troubles, but to have faith and confidence in God. This faith lifts men up from the tumult and confusion of the world about them...
...Faith in Him is tranquilizing in our religious life. It is not soothing like a narcotic, but nourishing and stimulating. If we believe in Him, we will not worry about the mysteries of future life, but leave all to Him. He will reveal these mysteries at some future time. It we are bewildered by the abundance of strife and sin in the world, let us recollect that the kingdom of which Christ is the foundation can not be swept away by the tempests of falsehood and disbelief. The day is coming when strife and sin shall be no more...
...meeting last evening was the largest and most enthusiastic of the year. Half an hour before the scheduled time every seat was taken and hundreds of men were crowded into the halls. Trainer McMasters made the first speech and was loudly cheered. He said that he had complete faith in Coach Reid, and that the men were in fine physical condition...
...written numerous commentaries on the Christian Scriptures. It was through these commentaries that Mr. M. H. Phelps, Yale '76, who is interested in the comparative study of religions, heard of Mr. Ramanathan, and induced him to visit this country to interpret to Americans his ideas on the unity of faith...