Word: hasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning the Convention opened promptly 40 minutes late. Bishop Gailor of Tennessee prayed: "O, most gracious God, who hast shown us wonderful things in Thy righteousness...
Jesus said*: "Go, sell all thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven." But John J. Eagan, President of the American Cast Iron Pipe Co. of Atlanta, Ga., interpreting the Scriptures liberally, bequeathed all the common stock of his Company to the employes in trust. The trustees control the Company, under the injunction " to deliver the Company's products to persons requiring it, at actual cost, which shall be considered the lowest possible price consistent with the maintenance and extension of the Company's plant or plants and 'business and the payment of reasonable...
...Thou hast said once: ' I am with him who is alone. Move the rock and ye will find me, kindle the wood and I am there.' But to find Thee in stone and wood means the will to seek Thee, the capacity to see Thee. And today most men neither want nor know how to find Thee...
...back to the eighteenth century or the Italian Renaissance, it is obvious that in our day and generation, the Classics are somewhat in eclipse. But there have been times when the clouds were even more thickly about them. As Odysseus remarked to his soul, "Bear it, brave heart; thou hast borne harder things than this." To those who know what treasures are laid up in the literatures of Greece and Rome, what opportunities for a culture at once nobly aristocratic and broadly human, there is no question that however long deferred, the day of the ancients will come again...
...Hast thou considered him who calls the judgment...