Word: live
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regular meeting of the Christian Association was conducted in Holden Chapel last evening by P. H. Savage, of the Divinity School, in place of Mr. J. M. W. Hall, who was unable to be present. Mr. Savage dwelt upon the pessimism of the age in which we live, and spoke of the many ways of overcoming the difficulties which are constantly besetting us. We must, said he, learn to face the world and receive its abuse and censure. Our only help at such times is in the Lord. If we trust in Him, He is willing...
which does not hang upon the mercy of chance or of our likes and dislikes, but which if the last copy of it should perish would still live on, because it had transfused with its own divine vitality the intellect and heart of mankind...
...example of this style of novel and although furiously attacked for the grim and sordid tastes which it details, is yet to be considered one of his best three books. A man who can draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them live and move in the sordid environment of a third rate journalism certainly did not merit the storm of abuse which greeted his masterpiece. It is to such works as this that future generations will turn to obtain a true picture of the commonplace American business...
...insisting on the distinction between the real and the actual? in assuming for the ideal an existence as absolute and self-subsistent as that which appeals to our senses, nay, so often cheats them, in the matter of fact? How very small a part of the world we truly live in is represented by what speaks to us through the senses when compared with that vast realm of the mind which is peopled by memory and imagination, and with such shining inhabitants! These walls, these faces, what are they in comparison with the countless images, the innumerable population which every...
...should know Christ, accept our duty and receive our privilege from Him. From cold-blooded spectators of life we must become warm sympathizers; we must live for our time...