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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...light; but if we follow our own way, we will find it difficult to resist temptation, and the burden will be a heavy one. If a man finds life going hard with him, let him give up self and follow Christ. The great trouble with men is that they live in their own way, not in Christ's, they are thinking of their own pleasure, they look for rest and relief. There is no satisfaction in living for one's self. When once a man forgets self. When once a man forgets self, and follows Christ, he is a changed...
...held on Sunday. Yet those have shown their effect on the 3,600 students at Edinburgh in the three years that they have been held. Third, there is no interference with athletics or amusements, and many of the athletic men are workers in the cause. Some have gone to live in the slums of Edinburgh, not to distribute tracts, but to help a falling man here with material aid, and to cure a sick child there. Fourth, and most important of all, there is no interference with speculative thought. The speculative thought, the philosophy, is for the few, but religion...
...constitutional system that have been published. It has the sort of merit that is usually found in the comments of a competent foreign observer upon the institutions of any country. Things that attract little attention, and so are often not at all remarked or understood by those who live under a given system, strike a stranger with the charm of novelty; they are tacitly compared with other institutions, and their true character is often more keenly perceived and brought out by such observers than by any others. De Tocqueville's book, parts of Prof. Dicey...
...Cambridge Chronicle is making an effective crusade against the liquor dealers of Cambridge who do not live up to the new prohibition...
...with courtesy. Men have replied with much minuteness, have ransacked old account-books, have explained sudden variations of expenses occuring in successive years, have reported the means by which they have been able to earn money, have offered valuable criticisms of their own outlays and of those modes of living here which in their judgement materially increase or diminish cost. Again and again they have frankly acknowledged extravagance, and about as often have confided to me their struggles to live on less than was wise. In short they have given me just the information I desired and have then requested...