Word: live
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this spirit of Puritanism, the spirit of simplicity, love of duty, and confidence in God, fast dying out among us? We sometimes congratulate ourselves that we live in better times than the Puritans, and we think that their rugged dutiful lives were much harder than was necessary. We live in luxury, sometimes we sneer at duty, and unfortunately there is not among us a great deal of simple and strong faith in God Many social evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others...
...Life is not measured by length of years, or by possessions, but by the spirit of God which is in a man. Real life is life eternal and by this we are not to understand only life lasting forever, but the life of the eternal God. He who truly lives, lives in God and God in him. The "life indeed" is something that cannot be lost. Death is but an end of the visible life, what we might call the picture of life, but the life indeed is in Christ and is eternal. This eternal life is what is sought...
...eternal and He is everywhere. God has created us and loves us. Therefore when men do wrong Christ is ashamed and hurt just as a father is if his son sins. Christ, then, came into the world and took all our sins upon Himself and died that we might live, and in His death our sins are dead. This is the Christ to whom we give ourselves. Can there be any one who is not willing to work for Him who has given Himself...
Among the other peculiar features of this people, which Mr. du Chaillu said were established by the evidence of both manuscripts and graves, were the customs in regard to children. When first born the father was called upon to decide whether the child was to live or be exposed. If the child was found to be sufficiently perfect to live he was allowed but a few years under the influence of his mother, being early taught the use of arms; and on becoming of age at fifteen years he was expected to distinguish himself by some gallant deed...
Phedre is an immortal play, one of those works of the human brain which will live and be admired so long as man has the power to appreciate the highest beauty and loftiest art. The power of the last two plays which have been discussed, was, as we have seen, in the appreciation of character and in the reality and truth with which events long since passed and scenes laid in far distant countries were brought before our minds by the mighty pen of the author; in Phedre we meet with events of the times of the ancient Greeks, clothed...