Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...verse: "Eugene Oneguin,"-with an interesting sketch of the literary aspect presented by Russian society of the first decade of our century. The chief chacteristic of Poushkin's lyric poetry was harmoniousness and many sidedness. Equally excellent, said the speaker, was the poet in picturing human sorrow or human joy. One never goes without the other, and, to express the poet's complexity, the lecturer characterizes it as "pouring rain with brilliant sunshine." He endeavored to give his hearers an impression of Poushkin's language and its charm. The whole was frequently illustrated by translations in verse...
...with God. How happy must they have been, as the evening twilight was falling, with their loving Lord shedding blessings upon their innocence. But another hour came, when man trembled before God in the first consciousness of his sin and degradation. The heavenly harmonies were broken. There was no joy in that vesper hour-the last in Eden...
...lost when Adam fell. There was another vesper hour, when Christ called unto Himself the sick to heal them of their wounds. And He is still bringing His healing power to the spirit of man today. He gives joy for sorrow, and peace for despair. It is better to live upon the heights of our time than in the lowlands of antiquity. Let us thank God for all these blessings, and, above all, for the Christ who made them possible...
...Joy of the Hills," Charles Edwin Markham...
...United States government lost its suit to recover $15,000,000 from the Stanford estate, much to the joy of the friends of Stanford University...