Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...glorious thing to lay hold of the good things in this world but they are all in vain if the spirit does not respond to the higher call and lay hold of the good things which are to last through all the everlasting ages...
...chapters 24-27, there are many problems and obscure allusions, but the conception reached is a still higher one. Israel is regarded no longer as a guilty nation, but as a righteous one under oppression. The prophet describes the removal of the veil of death and sorrow and the glorious entry of every race into a new creation. In a subsequent chapter the abolition of death is suggested and in another prayer is made for the resurrection of the dead. A similarity of ethical conceptions suggests the possibility of Persian influence at this period of Hebrew thought. The Persian supremacy...
Christ was sent into the world, said Mr. Byrd, to bear witness before men of his father. This same glorious commission has been given by Christ to us, - to share with him. Surely then this work should stand first, above all else, in the heart of every Christian. It rests upon all the members of the Christian church to see that the gospel is carried into every part of the world. It rests especially with students, who have had unusual advantages in education, to preach the word of God to a heathen world, and to show by noble lives...
...choir sang "Jerusalem, High Tower Thy Glorious Walls," by Parker; "Hosanna in the Highest," by Stainer; and "O Worship the Lord," by Watson...
...here we are in our present times with innumerable styles of architecture, none of them representative. Either we must throw aside the glorious example of past ages and set ourselves up as prophets of a higher civilization, or we must do our best to make our architecture characteristic of our times. The latter method is justified by a long list of successes, and it is certainly best for us to follow it; but in order to know what style we should follow we must know our historical position, for style in its growth has been governed by universal development...