Word: holinesse
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In the first place, goodness and holiness are recognized as practically synonymous by all great thinkers, irrespective of sect or creed. Not Christ alone, but such philosophers as Spinoza have spoken of love as the supreme quality in man, and the thought has been repeated by those of later times...
The good and the beautiful as abstract qualities are in most ways almost inseparable. It has been said that moral philosophers are really no more than connoisseurs of true beauty. True beauty cannot be sinful, for a distinctive quality of beauty and holiness alike is unity, and the distinctive quality...
Bishop Vincent preached at Appleton Chapel last night from the text, "He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel," taken from the one hundred and third psalm. He said God has revealed himself to men by acts and not by words. People seem usually...
Last evening, Professor Goodale spoke on the subject of the Hippocratic Oath. After a short account of the medical profession among the early Greeks, he analyzed the oath, or obligation, taken by the students of medicine, in the time of Pericles. The candidate for graduation promised solemnly that he would...
The attraction,' he says, 'of unconscious holiness is of an urgent and inevitable nature, it persuades the weak, the timid, the wavering, and the inquiring; it draws forth the affection and loyalty of all who are in a measure like-minded; and over the thoughtless or perverse multitude it exercises...