Word: graces
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vigor and energy, and they pray to be like one whom they think of as all gentleness. This state of things is palpably wrong, but it results merely from a mistake. The whole remedy lies simply in realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic power could have started the viorations that have thrilled the world for so many centuries. All through the Gospels this strength shines out again and again. The power is vast through His long temptation and in His ministry, carried on without...
...doubtless been largely malicious, but it has defeated its own purpose, as far as most Christians are concerned, for it has made the writings stronger and more alive to them, and more applicable to their daily needs, and, above all, it has brought out more of the boundless grace and strength of the character of Christ, Himself, than was ever comprehended before. There may be atheists and agnostics in the world, and they are very often noisy, but underneath all is a growing body of earnest, men who are doing grand work for Christianity and doing it as steadily...
...first Paul got for his answer nothing. Then out of the silence came to him a thought that gradually shaped itself into the word of the Lord, "My grace is sufficient for thee." Nothing is more unphilosophical than the argument that prayer is merely reflective. Contact and influence is one of the interest realities of human existence. Why should not divine influence be more real? Paul came to regard it as very real...
...idea of our University, and the treatment is allegorical. Mr. Tiffany has availed himself of the legend of St. Christopher who, it will be remembered, succeeded, after many trials, in bearing the Christ-child upon his shoulders across a dard and stormy river, there-by receiving divine power and grace. In the picture St. Cristopher represents our forefathers who were the fostering guardians of the University, while the Christ-child is Learning and Intelligence. The great human strength of the man's figure is in strong contrast with the divine fervor that illumines his face; and together they make...
...past few months, been greatly alarmed at the number of times he has been seen under the influence of liquor. They have noticed that he has been far less vigorous and in much poorer health than he has been for years. Being anxious that he shall continue to grace the college with his genial presence for many years to come, it has become necessary to take this step of urgently appealing to all the students not to give John any liquor whatsoever. This seems a strange appeal to make to the students, but it is from them that John receives...