Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discusses the tendencies of labor in Great Britain; ex-President. White of Cornell adds an article to the much debated question of higher instruction in America and the future of the second-class "Universities" with which the country is surfeited. John Burroughs leaves his country scenes to talk of "Faith" and "Credullty." Madame A dam and G. P. A. Healey gossip about subjects with which they are respectively less and more familiar; while Professor Shaler, who turns off magazine articles with astonishing ease, writes on "The Peculiarities of the South...
...that peace, though we come to it by many roads, is one great city of God for all. It would be all theory and speculation if there were not God-if around all our confusion and perplexity there did not rest the boundless certainty and strength and strength is faith. Therefore believe ! Therefore belief ! Belief is the rest of the partial on the perfect, of the temporary on the everlasting, of that which is-on that, on him, which...
Into that faith let us all enter. In it let us all abide. To them who live in it the incorruptible crown is always summoning the willing energies, and the willing energies, hearing their true summons, are always eager to respond. Beyond the little struggles always stretches the great race course with its shining prize-character and service. Nothing can satisfy the soul but them. The soul finds them when it finds God. The soul finds God when it finds them. May we all find them and God, and so attain the crown of life. Amen...
Anyone who went to Sever 11 last evening in the faith that he was to hear President Eliot speak, must have come away not only disappointed but skeptical as to the motives which inspired your editorial of yesterday. I should like to state that although the writer was undoubtedly suffering under a painful hallucination, this did not extend to all his statements. President Eliot has really promised to speak at a College Conference upon the choice of electives; the date will be announced in the Calendar...
...could be apparent only to the caviler. "Goethe had spots in his character, but spots are in the sun." Carlyle accepted Goethe in his skepticism for he had felt skepticism himself; he accepted him in his doubting, for he had had doubts himself; and he accepted Goethe in his faith for he knew the faith to be well-founded and noble...