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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...christian is the life that is lived in accordance with the life of the Saviour. You remember Luther; he was studying for the rest of his soul; he did everything so far as he knew, to obtain eternal life. He went to Rome, but there he found things in the same unsettled state as before. On his way home he heard these words, "The Just live in Faith," and this was the beginning of Luther's faith and his useful career...
...taken us many centuries to understand these truths and even today we seem not to realize that all men are brethren. The Jews of old knew that God alone is master, no man else, and in a way recognized that all are brothers. For many democratic principles were their possession, notably the right of universal suffrages and popular education. Then came Christ and taught his disciples that all men rich and poor, are before everything else brothers...
SCRIBNER'S."The One I knew Best of all" Frances Hodgson Burnett's account of her own childhood, is perhaps the most noteworthy contribution of the current Scribner's. There is a paper on the Peary Relief Expedition by the chief of the expedition and another of the articles on the "Poor in Great Cities," deals with Naples. Frederic Crowninshield gives the "Impressions of a Decorator in Rome...
...roadside beyond Columous there was a good deal of skating and many of the following seemed homesick at the sight of it. But the train sped on to Cincinnati. Here it arrived at scheduled time, six o'clock. The concert was very disappointing in every way. So few people knew of it in time, that the Glee Club sang to a mere handful in the centre of the hall while the lonesome tones beat themselves to pieces on the empty chairs way off in the galleries. After the concert, barges carried the Clubs to the train which had been held...
Professor Horsford died very suddenly of heart disease at his home in Cambridge Sunday afternoon. He was apparently in the best of health on Saturday, and to the many who knew him the announcement of his death will seem almost increditable...