Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...magnificent palms at the Botanical Gardens outgrew the green houses and broke through the roof; as there were no suitable houses for them at the garden they have been taken out and presented to the Word's Fair. Some men may be interested to know that a number of orchids at the Botanical Garden are just now coming into bloom...
Tomorrow the fifth number of the Advocate will appear. It is not as good as usual. The editorials lack even their accustomed quality of entertainingness and as far as we know, they make claim to nothing more. The first one it is true, has a good object in view, while the second is obviously a last resort of a hard-pressed editor...
...poor father for a strengthening of his faith, would find a ready response. They are among those who have a sort of faith in God, but whose belief is so small as to be of little comfort to them. The great cry of our generation is "I do not know." This lack of strong conviction is found in spiritual things as well as in temporal. The text found in the epistle to James. - "if there be not the works of faith, there is no faith," is not always helpful. As a help to your faith, suppose the preacher...
...regarded it, viz: as the highest possible embodiment of a man's conception of and love for ideal beauty, veritably the temple of the spirit. When we learn that to have a beautiful and finely developed form requires moderation in life and subjection to the spiritual. then shall we know that the nude form is as pure as God made...
...earliest literature was naturally of a mythical nature, and while we may smile at the old tales and legends it is to our advantage to know something of them. These old works have a poetical as well as a political value for us. At first there were the two distinct literatures of the Northern and Southern Celts, first of a Pagan type, and later influenced by Christianity...