Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With hope and faith, bright laurels...
...Make it a mere book of dogmas, and its vitality is gone. Make it a biography and it is the Book of life. Make it the history of Jesus of Nazareth, and the world holds it to its heart forever! Not simply His coming or going - not simply His faith or His death, but his living. The total life of Jesus is the world's salvation, and the Book in which His life shines, orbed and distinct, is the world's treasure...
...last evening, to listen to the reading of Mr. Dana's dissertation. To appreciate Emerson's position in the world of modern thought, it is necessary to study the philosophical attitude of his contemporaries. The nineteenth century is characterized by pessimism, and it is chiefly through the abandonment of faith in the revelation of the bible, that such men as Voltaire, Byron, Tennyson, Swinburne, Goethe and DeMusset, were lead into this line of thought. Poets are quoted as examples, for more than all other men they give expression to the thought of their times...
...large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he was not contented with the age he lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits in common with Wordsworth; but he was a much broader man. He taught the nineteeeth...
...portion of the alumni in the New York Harvard Club is really no supposition at all, but a veritable axiom, to doubt which would be like saying that two and two are not four, but five or six. And as commendable as the Princetonian's logic, is its faith in time. Concerning this, however, it should be remembered that time by general belief, is endless, so that faith in time may be endless also. With such a limitation in mind we are willing to say, with the Princetonian, not that time will, but that time may show Princeton "the most...