Word: helle
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wonder why I am satisfied to be planted so far from the war area. As an answer, remember that all the men we are working with are Territorial who are awaiting their turn to go "up the Gulf," wounded and convalescents who come back with nerves shattered by the "hell" of Mesopotamian heat and disease, and regulars who have to guard the "no man's land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from...
...Rogers '18 goes so far indeed as to write a hectic letter to the editor, "War--and the Millenium," in which he asserts that "War is the raging drink of life and death, or hell and heaven, pressed by the hand of a God of Battles into a full cup." He also confides to the editor, "I am an ancient cave-man in my inmost soul. My heart is hot to drink the cup of wrath, to press the rue from the drunken bowl." But President Wilson in his message says that "If our citizens are ever to fight effectively...
Vorgil and St. Lucian in the "Inferno" are significant of the necessity of the presence of reason and faith throughout our lives. Hell is the revelation of evil, by means of the reason given us by the divine grace of faith. The great lesson of the "Inferno" is that only through the grace of God can we see evil. As he goes on with his great pilgrimage, Dante learns the lessons of the joy of sacrifice, of progress only through present dissatisfaction, and of the salvation of souls by God alone. Life consists, if we but allow...
...cannot take the direct route he had chosen, towards the light of God, because of the obstacles he had created through his own sin. Beatrice, later, reproaches him for losing his brilliant ideal, at her death, and falling into sin, such that he can find Heaven only through Hell. One of the great motifs of the poem lies in this fall of Dante, under the pressure of circumstances, from a high spiritual life to a somewhat lower level. And yet Dante shows his great and characteristic personality in his agony of self-reproach and his honest acknowledgment of his sins...
...Inferno," said Bishop Boyd-Carpenter, "is a revelation of the ugliness of sin; it means self-discovery." We must endure Hell in order to understand Heaven. The "Inferno' 'is the only way to Heaven and Love