Word: hope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Appleton Chapel. I wish you would some day express to any of the men whom you meet my sense of the very manly and cordial reception which I always found among them, and the earnest hearing which made every morning service an inspiration and delight to me. I shall hope to meet many of these unknown friends, or half-known friends, again; and mean-while, on the eve of sailing away into an untried future, I could not help writing this little farewell, as I thought of this - one of the happiest elements of my past...
...mass meeting has been held at Princeton to see what prospect there is of a successful University Eating Club. The meeting was largely attended and enthusiastic, and there is good hope that the 250 members necessary for the organization of the club will be soon obtained. The club will be run in much the same manner as the Harvard Dining Association, and it is expected that the saving to the members through the purchase of provisions at wholesale rates will be very considerable. The management of the club will be vested in a president, treasurer, house committee, and a board...
...work shall be should look carefully about and see for what they are fitted. They who aim for money alone or that work which will bring them the easiest living have really no place in life. For those who have more honorable purposes, who feel within them this faith, hope and love, there is a calling. For him who has these three qualities very deeply imbedded in his heart there is no worthiers profession than that of the ministry. The pulpit may have lost its power, but man has not and if he can make others feel the meaning...
...give a solution to the mysteries of life, it teaches us to fear God and this is the beginning of wisdom. Religion is not an expression of opinion nor is belief in immortality, valuable as it may be, essential to it. It is, in its truest sense faith, hope and love. They are the threads of life and give the key to the solution of its perplexities and burdens. We study science to find what reason there is in nature and what are the laws which govern it. We find there is back of all phenomena, understanding and intelligence...
...education is character, and while you may speak of different parts of man, still he is really a unit and must be developed as a unit. All literature which does not build up in man faith, hope and love, has no place in the world. It is no excuse to give him unhealthy and demoralizing news merely because he will read it, but everything should tend to a strong and well-rounded character...