Word: labors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...religion of the Greeks and Romans was almost entirely free from introspection, self-abasement, and asceticism. Their attitude towards the gods was chiefly one of hilarious gratitude. In worship they offered among other things the time which naturally would be devoted to business; and the natural opposite of labor was enjoyment. So that, to a Roman, attendance upon a spectacle of any kind was an act of worship just as going to church is to a Christian. To have brought before us a spectacle, which was also a rite, in a form resembling that used by the Romans...
...working of the law of the conservation of energy, how no atom of matter, no particle of energy can ever be destroyed or lost, is it natural to suppose that in the spiritual world a spirit that has been developing for many years, that is the result of immeasurable labor and the effect of many influences can all be destroyed and blotted out of existence by the blow of a dagger? Is it not rather natural that what is so infinitely more valuable in the sight of God than the energy of the sun should be preserved...
...Efficient municipal aid is (1) impracticable, because (a) manual labor only can be furnished, for which the majority of the unemployed are unqualified. (2) It is inadvisable, because (a) it furnishes too great an opportunity to officials to distribute aid for partisan purposes. (b) It weakens the beneficial offects of private charity...
There are three claims, Mr. Thayer said, which Sunday has upon the upper or educated class of men, to which every student in this University belongs. The first in importance is the claim Sunday exercises with regard to our relations with the laboring class of men. They have a right to their rest on this one day in the week, a hard and well earned right, and it is our duty to show them that we, the educated men, have a reverence for this day of rest, and to show them by our example the beneficial work Christianity is doing...
another result. God holds us responsible for our labor, time, talents and all that goes to make our life. Then again we can only follow out the text of brotherly love when we recognize that God loves us and brings us up just as a mother cares for her children, giving to no one of us more than He gives to another...