Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...look at a very serious subject. No one who stops to think will deny that it is a matter that comes near to us, and one about which we must learn the truth if it be possible. Truth upon the matter must come to us largely by faith. We can give no mathematical proof of the existence of God, but still we are sure of it. We are conscious of it just as we are of our own existence. What we must do is to struggle against the spirit of the age which is inclined to agnosticism. The spirit...
...services in Appleton Chapel last evening were conducted by Rev. W. B. King of Christ Church, who took for his text II Peter I, 5, "Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue." It is remarkable how single words often express in their development the history of whole phases of human history. The word "virtue" in the text is a fitting example. The Greek word used by St. Peter had a simple meaning compared with its translation, a meaning parallel to "virtus" from which we get our word. It meant all that is brave and manly, all that is distinctly...
...Princeton students was held on Monday to take action in regard to some cases of open violation of the new rules concerning examinations. The faculty recently passed a vote providing that no instructor or procter should be present at an examination, but as a guarantee of his good faith, each student should sign at the end of his book a statement to the effect that he had neither received nor given aid during the examination. A number of men, mostly from the lower classes, were noticed to disregard utterly this pledge and the mass meeting was called to condemn their...
...problem of justification by faith is to make a man right who is wrong. We have seen that a man cannot make himself right by a direct aim at right. The law of indirectness forces him to use power outside of himself and these powers he must find in some great personality From the example and relationship of this personality he can fill his soul with great aims, high aspirations and can become the embodiment of a great purpose with absolutely no room left for considation of self...
...father, but in extremity. souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...