Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Thursday, March 29. A blue-book has been left at Leavitt and Peirce's for men to sign. The price of the dinner is two dollars, and every one will be required to pay on signing. Men are urgently requested to sign the book at once. The committee must know very soon how many men are coming to the dinner, and men will therefore not have a long time in which to sign...
...second place, no tickets should be secured by any one who expects that the occasion will be anything but orderly and dignified. In regard to speculation, the committee will take every precaution. For every seat sold, the name of the purchaser has been kept; the committee know exactly who should be in the different seats, and all suspicious cases will be investigated. The fact that there are some men who will stoop to make money by deliberately perverting the whole purpose of such an affair, cannot be spoken of by the ordinary man with anything but the strongest terms...
...secondly a trained observer. If either is wanting the light is of no value. If the mirror is poor, that is if the reflected light be too faint, the best observer can get no good results. Thus often in the troubles and perplexities of life, even those who know God best cannot distinguish His hand. On the other hand, if the mirror be perfect there is nothing told to one who is not a good observer. Thus while to a naturalist every plant and rock tells how the laws of nature are working, to the uneducated they mean nothing...
...preached last night in Appleton Chapel from the text, "For now we see through a mirror, darkly; but then face to face." This verse, he said, calls our attention at once to the contrast between our present state and the future. Now we cannot understand all things, we cannot know God perfectly. This fact troubles many people and they think that if we cannot know all we can know nothing. But Paul says "now I know in part;" partial knowledge is not to be despised. Our light now is reflected light, but while it comes through a mirror...
When we have finished this life then we shall see Him face to face and know Him as He is. All our difficulties will be made clear and everything we cannot understand will be plain. The riddle of what our life is and towards what end we are working will be solved. The greatest and best thing we can do is to receive the light of God and reflect it again. The greatest mistake a man can make is to cover up this mirror and sit in darkness...