Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...protect them better without aid from England.- (a) She is responsible for continuance of Turkish misrule.- (b) She is suspected as an interested power.- (c) An alliance with the United States would not remove this suspicion.- (B) We are under no obligation to defend the Christian faith.- (1) No religion is recognized in the Constitution.- (2) The power to wage war for religious purposes is not given to the government.- (3) America's great contribution to civilization has been non-interference in matters of religious faith (C. W. Eliot).- (C) It is not necessarily a duty to humanity...
...Faunce, D. D., of New York city preached last night to a large congregation at Appleton Chapel, taking as his text, "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of God unto a perfect man," Ephesians...
...offer them beyond the usual negative "thou shalt not." Professor James goes on to show the means whereby the suicide may actually be made to see that in spite of adverse circumstances life is worth living still; and his final appeal is to nothing more recondite than religious faith...
...faith beforehand in an uncertified result is often the only thing that makes the result come true. Believe that you can make a dangerous leap, and your feet are nerved to the accomplishment; but mistrust yourself and you are lost. Refuse to believe and you shall indeed be right, for you shall irretrievably perish. But believe, and again you shall be right, for you shall save yourself. This is why life depends on the liver. Life is worth living, since it is what we make it. Pessimism, completed by your act, is true beyond a doubt, so far as your...
However, dogma is not an artificial thing. It is not an attempt to coerce the worship of men. People coming to the faith of the church think it looks mechanical, but it gives the substance out of which all true emotions must arise. Hence the definite teachings of the church should lead men to study faith...