Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bride had to be obtained and the parties could not be near relations. The betrothal was somewhat of the nature of a modern contract, there being witnesses to sign the papers and a certain amount of money being given to the man as a pledge of good faith. In after years this money was replaced by an iron ring, this being the origin of the modern engagement ring. Immediately after the betrothal there was a grand festival to which all the friends of both families were invited. The marriage ceremony took place in the morning and was followed...
...attitude toward Christ of the father of the child which had the dumb spirit is exactly our own. It is to Christ that the world turns for the solution of its troubles, and yet that solution has not come. It is because there is the same lack of complete faith which there was in the father when Christ addressed to him the words of the text. Faith is openness of heart and character. The man who has not this is solitary, he is not an integral part of the world...
...himself a wide circle of friends. We, who know him best, loved him more and more as we learned to know his noble character. Strong in his aims and pure in his life, we mourn him as a brother. In our meetings, his earnest words and simple prayer of faith impressed us all as the deep feeling of one who walked with...
...from Frederick the Great having given Washington a sword, no gift was ever sent by him to the American general, and "he never recognized in any remark the greatness of Washington." The fiction of the number is very diversified, includiug a new installment of Dr. Eggleston's "Faith Doctor;" a story "There were Ninety and Nine," by the new edit of Harper's Weekly, Richard Harding Davis; the conclusion of Hopkinson Smith's "Colonel Carter of Cartersville;" and "A Race Romance," the last of a series of three short tales, by that delightful story-teller, Maurice Thompson...
Isaiah's whole power was given to prevent any alliance with outside nations, and to establish in the people a thorough faith and confidence in God. As he lived in times of great peril and excitement he was especially influential, and, in the latter part of his life, was at the head of the affairs of the kingdom. He stood up for reform in the direction of simplicity in matters of dress and luxury as well as for reform in morals...