Word: laying
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...modes of appeal. If He had come as a power and as a ruler many would have come to Him and trusted Him merely from hopes of gain. Christ did not want to win the ascendency or approval of men in this way. The whole principle underlying His action lay in the consciousness of the men appealed...
...revivify Christian doctrines and dogmas, we should lay them beside the principles of Christ. Then can we find the truth which the dogma was formed to preserve. Among his principles we find that of inwardness. To the Jews, the "kingdom of God" was a material kingdom which was to come. Christ, however, taught that the Kingdom of God was here, open to all who sought for it. Anyone who aids those in need finds the Kingdom of God an inward kingdom within men's hearts...
Bishop Gailor, the first speaker, whose subject was "The South," said that in a century whose greatness lay in its discoveries, the greatest discovery of all was that of the nation itself, not as a mere collection of individuals, but in its national character. Every problem in national life is a moral question and therefore ultimately a religious problem. There can be no anthithesis between politics and religion because the nation is bound to the same Almighty as the individual. The great ideals, social and political, are the Christian ideals, not that others have not had ethical insight, but because...
...hopeful or immortality. Alone, science may be said to lessen the belief of the individual in a future life. An immense majority of men live without any idea of immortality, a large group regard the hereafter as one of man's inventions, while a third, and much smaller class, lay hold of the life hereafter as a governing influence in this...
...joke on the front page was old in the far-away days when the "By The Way" column ceased to be novel, but the drawing is good. The editorial is not inspiring, and probably a candidate did not write it. For the rest of the number, the critic must lay aside his accustomed phrases reserved for Lampy, and simply say "good." Drawings and reading matter alike are entertaining, and--especially the drawings--bear the signs of one or two men trying very hard to become Lampoon editors so that they may have an easy time and never have...