Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work shall be should look carefully about and see for what they are fitted. They who aim for money alone or that work which will bring them the easiest living have really no place in life. For those who have more honorable purposes, who feel within them this faith, hope and love, there is a calling. For him who has these three qualities very deeply imbedded in his heart there is no worthiers profession than that of the ministry. The pulpit may have lost its power, but man has not and if he can make others feel the meaning...
...does not give a solution to the mysteries of life, it teaches us to fear God and this is the beginning of wisdom. Religion is not an expression of opinion nor is belief in immortality, valuable as it may be, essential to it. It is, in its truest sense faith, hope and love. They are the threads of life and give the key to the solution of its perplexities and burdens. We study science to find what reason there is in nature and what are the laws which govern it. We find there is back of all phenomena, understanding...
...education is character, and while you may speak of different parts of man, still he is really a unit and must be developed as a unit. All literature which does not build up in man faith, hope and love, has no place in the world. It is no excuse to give him unhealthy and demoralizing news merely because he will read it, but everything should tend to a strong and well-rounded character...
...Exodus, where God speaks to Moses from the burning bush He expresses a great truth in saying that He is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. These three men were of very different types. Abraham was a leader of men and his faith in God was great. Isac was a plain "everyday" man and does not seem to have seen visions. And yet his trustfulness is seldom duly appreciated. If Abraham was faithful in his willingness to sacrifice his son at God's bidding. Isaac was also trustful in giving himself when...
Voted, that this Board has received with much satisfaction the communication presented to the President and Fellows by the members of the D. K. E. Society and that it relies upon the honor and good faith of the present members of the D. K. E. and of their successors to discontinue any and all practices which can by possibility tend to the discredit of Harvard College...