Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clergy would be exerted in compelling men to send their children to the parochial schools instead of public ones, against their will. The Catholic church seeks to control the State, and there is no reason why a general tax on the people should be appropriated to promulgate a special faith...
...perfectly ready to sacrifice the whole field of pure metaphysics. The essay would have been much more valuable if the writer had stopped to support such statements as that the "Kantian principle on which agnosticism rsts is itself a sophism." We are asked to take rather too much on faith...
...abolition of the compulsory system here was hailed by the faculty and students alike as a step toward true worship. It was a recognition of the truth that observance of mere forms is meaningless. Whoever attends chapel now, attends it with the true religious spirit and whatever faith a man may profess, whether he be Protestant, Romanist or Jew, he must recognize that the same motive acts upon the man who is to him a heretic, as upon himself, a desire to worship the Deity. Consequently every one, unless he be a veritable pessimist, must rejoice at the success which...
...jerseyed men pounded his delivery badly. He is in prime condition now, and has sworn vengeance for the drubbing his pitching got before. No one here doubts his ability to outwit his opponents if he is in good condition. He has done it so often before that the faith in him is unbounded. There is little chance that Yale will lose the championship this year...
...life of self-command to be attained? Only through the religious life. And what is the substance of religion? The sum of the religious life, the preacher said, is faith. This does not means, as we so often hear it said, a system of belief, but a loyalty to a person, a soldierly obedience to God. It is only through this loyalty and subordination that our lives receive that power which enables them to exert power over those we seek to command...