Word: life
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...LECTURE. "Medial Selection and Vitality Statistics in Life Insurance." Dr. Edwin W. Dwight, of Boston. Emerson...
...only within the last 25 years that college men have turned in large numbers to business life on graduation, and even at the present time few of them engage in retail trade. Though in recent graduating classes at Harvard more than one-half of the members have announced their intention of going into "business," they usually enter manufacturing, wholesale trading, or some form of banking. The evolution of the department store, involving the centralization under a single management of many operations of trade and manufacturing, is a development of the present which has raised the retail business to the dignity...
...great beliefs of Jesus was in the necessary inwardness of religious life. He believed, too, in the necessity of moral freedom and independence. Whatever Jesus preached, he preached earnestly and passionately; he realized that life was serious and that a frivolous existence could, be but temporary. Together with this serious conception of life, he believed in the absolute integrity of existence...
...doubly attested" sayings as given by Burkitt, which he declared to possess tremendous power because of their very simplicity. In these sayings the element of love is dominant as the supreme power of all. Here also we find the qualities noticed in Schmiedel's work: the earnest attitude toward life and the belief in a personal religion. Christ believed in the marvellous growth of good from humble beginnings. Our life should be one of sacrifice. In the utterance, "For he that hath to him shall be given; and he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that...
...clearly understand the purely ethical teachings of Jesus we must look at his teachings of Jesus we must look at his teachings as a whole. We cannot wholly ignore the spirit of his life as it influenced his teaching. We may perhaps best use Luke as the summary of the whole teaching which may be summed up as "good tidings authoritatively given; born of love; bursting the bonds of much previous religion; and calling for new righteousness of universal love in its votaries...