Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to his subject matter. Cicero says Socrates brought philosophy down from heaven to earth. Socrates did not agree with his predecessors who tried to solve the material universe; all this was folly and mere fancy to him. He believed that the natural sciences were reserved by the gods for themselves and that all attention should be placed on that which deals with conduct. He was not a systematic thinker like Plato and Spinoza. His great achievement was that he taught the importance of clearness in thinking on ethical questions which is called his inductive process of thinking...
...abdicates. With his wife, four brothers, and a black dog, who is justice in disguise, he goes towards a sacred mountain for meditation. On the road all his companions except the dog drop dead, and these-two-soon reached the summit. A golden chariot arrives to take Undostheera to Heaven; he, however, steadfastly refuses to go without the dog. Justice leaves his disguise and Undostheera ascends to Heaven. Here he is greatly disappointed at not finding the souls of his relatives, and soon leaves Heaven by the Sinner's Grove in search of his kin. He succeeds in finding them...
...character of Abraham than his sublime faith. He then spoke of the reasonableness of our faith in God and what it means to us in this life and the life to come. So far from making us dissatisfied with the life here and long for the joys of the heavenly home, the truly-balanced mind will be affected just the other way, for faith teaches us that the life yonder has its beginning here, and everything to which we look forward there has its beginning here. The well balanced mind sees in the duties, the opportunities of life here...
...give obedience to the laws, and always hold them sacred. The choir rendered in an appropriate manner, the following anthems: "There is spring up a light for the righteous," by Armes; "For his wrath endures but for a moment," by Smart; for adult voices; "God who madest earth and heaven...
...there were regions in space of which mortals have no cognizance, so there were heights of morality and truth of which the wicked were ignorant. Unrighteous men prostrate themselves before the throne of pleasure, or profit, or reputation, unaware of the grandeur and beauty of the throne of Heaven, which is the source of all true happiness and lasting benefit. The choir sang the anthem "O how Amiable are Thy Dwellings," by Banaby; Mr. Gardner S. Lamson, of the class of '77, sang the "Lord God of Abraham," from Mendelssohn's Elijah...