Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doors were closed, and throngs of people were obliged to turn away. The attendance of college students was very large, and the seats reserved for them were far from adequate. Rev. Phillips Brooks conducted the services preliminary to the sermon. Canon Farrar's text was, "By Faith," taken from the fourth chapter of Hebrews, and the substance of his remarks was as follows...
...history we may learn at least three lessons: First, history teaches us the sole secret of moral power. By faith St. Paul, St. Anthony, Gregory VII, and Luther shook the world. Secondly, history teaches us that the work of the world's heroes is never permanent in its results. The oil in a lamp, if it is always to burn, must often be replenished. If a work pauses, degradation ensues. Christianity as a human philosophy is lacking. Only as a divine message, as a living energy, can it be complete and truly successful. Thirdly, history teaches that the failures...
...have unto every sheete being seaven in number put to my hand and have sealed the same this second daye of Julie in the eleaventh yeare of the reigne of our Souaigne Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c. Annoq Dni 1635. The marke...
...howl' (we have mislaid the paper and the exact word escape us) which in its mind has arisen from its 'sister college in New Haven,' about the listlessness, over-confidence, and general demoralization of the Yale crew. And the CRIMSON warns the Harvard crew against putting any faith in such 'wails.' Moreover, the CRIMSON cites as an instance of such a wail's proving only a 'gag,' the articles which appeared in the Yale papers last fall about the foot-ball team, adding that the team afterwards proved so strong that Princeton had considerable difficulty in defeating...
...trace to its source any such report, and yet there must be some foundation for such positive statements. Undoubtedly the tendency of Harvard was Unitarian in the beginning of the century, and up to the last few years many of the instructors, fellows, and overseers have been of that faith. This would give some slight ground for questioning the influence of the college on the young minds of its members; yet the accusations go on and state that even the instructors avail themselves of the privlege they possess in addressing the students in recitation hours, and by hints and sneers...