Word: follow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...found unalterable for all matter are so for him. he has begun to realize how his life should be led; that, since inanimate things by obeying without the minutest deviation, every requirement of the laws, are always beautiful as the light, so his own life, should it follow the commands of its Creator, might break loose from the ugliness and deformity that disobedience has produced, and become the grandest piece of all God's handiwork...
Show what Christ can do for a soul and a life. Create a true church of Christ in your own home and among your friends. Go on in the same quiet way, and when you die, your work will not all follow you, but will go on broadening and deepening how far and how long you will not know till the harvest of souls shall all be gathered...
...best accomplish having your religion honored in the entire circle of your acquaintance? not by ostentatious professions. Make your quiet yet efficient profession by constant attendance on christian worship and ordinances and by taking your modest port in such associations for religious improvement as have your confidence and sympathy. Follow the leading of your own enlightened conscience by letting no cumulative force of example or persuasio turn you one hair's breadth from what you regard as your duty; by making your own way through college a right line, a straight line in the direct way from earth to heaven...
...directors fixing the amount of the dividend. I suggest that we divide the round sum of $2,800, reserving the rest of the net gain for addition to capital and for possible expenses for alterations beyond the sum estimated. Last year we divided about $1,800. If we follow the usual rule of past years, and divide two-thirds of the net gain, we shall have a larger sum, about $3,100 for dividends; but I think it wise to increase our capital as much as possible, and the members will probably be satisfied with the division...
...looks out upon the broad expanse of life with its wonderful activity and its astonishing achievements, he cannot but remark how each man is compelled to follow one line of business or profession and so keep on in a narrow channel. Now this is the very idea that we must dismiss from our minds and it is the very principle that will mar the noblest minds. No such opinion prevails in a true university. "For if a university stands for anything it stands for the development of the full man, of large character and with sympathies bound up with...