Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Everett spoke at vespers yesterday on the text "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." He said: We are not to infer from this that Jesus was a pessimist. On the contrary He had faith that conquered the world. Christ means simply not to look ahead and dread what is to come. A man thinks for instance that he can't spare a very dear friend. Yet when that friend is taken away he finds himself able to bear the loss, for there are resources in us unknown, and, in such trying circumstances, these come to our aid. Most...
...text of Rev. Henry Van Dyke's sermon yesterday evening was Hebrews xi : 8, "And he went out not knowing whither he went." He said: (1) Faith is an adventure, it is going out into the unknown future under the guidance of God. Faith recognizes that life is a pilgrimage whose course and duration can not be forseen. The man who has no faith either accepts the uncertainty of life as a necessity of fate, he is caught in the net of a hidden destiny which to him can never seem anything else than a blind chance because there...
This democratic power, that had, with few exceptions, been unquestioned up to the present year, the recent action of the foot ball officers seriously menaces. They undoubtedly acted in entire good faith, and, as they thought, for the best interests of the University, but nevertheless the results of this agency were, we believe, illegitimate, and under the custom of the Yale athletic system cannot give expression to the opinions of, or bind, the students as a vote of theirs in mass-meeting would. The question is one of very serious import. We refer it to undergraduates and Alumni for consideration...
...News heartily approves of the agreement made four months ago; but finds fault merely with the manner in which it was made - not with the arrangement itself, as some of the New York newspapers yesterday intimated. The latter construction would of course be equivalent to an accusation of bad faith against Yale...
...although this was his right, yet it was disagreeable to the Chileans. The safe conduct out of the country for these refugees, which Mr. Egan demanded of Matta, the foreign minister, was refused and soon after this minister wrote to the ambassadors, notes making abusive charges of bad faith against Minister Egan, Secretary Tracy and President Harrison...