Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...treasurer's loss by nearly two hundred dollars. The call of the treasurer was repeated at the beginning of this year, and still there are clubs which have refused to pay their dues. Such action on the part of these clubs is nothing less than a shameful breach of faith Having given their promise to support the organization, and having ordered their treasurer to make certain expenditures the clubs are bound by all the rules of honor to keep their word, and pay their obligations...
...these commands. But at the other extreme is the man who has worked hard and well and who cannot rest in the belief that his best labor is all that God asks. He needs to consider the exhortations to trust, to cease all anxiety and rest in the faith that God is over all that seems so doubtful and unsure. The work that one man can do is small and seems almost useless, but this is no reason for worrying about it. As the farmer puts seed into the ground and then trusts implicitly that fruit will come...
...star was science. Men devoted their lives to it and at last came to idolize it. They worshipped it for its own sake, little heeding the objections that such a religion was only for the greatest intellects and most devoted students; that it took away the ignorant man's faith, and gave him nothing in return...
...Hill delivered addresses before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard on "Liberal Education" (1858), and on "The Opportunities of Life" at Antioch (1860). He edited Eberty's "The Stars and the Earth" (1849), and published "Christmas, and Poems on Slavery" (1843), "Geometry and Faith" (1849), "First Lessons in Geometry" (1854), "Second Book In Geometry" (1862), "Jesus, the Interpreter of Nature, and Other Sermons" (1859), "Practical Arithmetic" (1881), and contributions to numerous periodicals, mathematical and astronomical journals, and religious newspapers...
...best stories of the number is "That City Chap." a tale of country life. The spirit of the New England village life is rather faith fully produced and the action of the story is simple...