Word: lively
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Epochs in the world's history came and are gone, and through them all and shaping the eras that are ushered in, abides the influence of Jesus Christ, working through the lives of men. Those men will inspire and lead the world who, like Christ, live their lives by divine laws and for definite and exalted work...
...great have been the achievements under the last sixty years of British rule that the Victorian Age must be a mark in history. Yet it is not for this that we most honor the dead Queen, but from the witness of her life that "it is possible to live nobly, even in a palace." Because she was free from worldliness in the greatest of world-centres; because she held simple faith and love above all that the world could give, we forget the monarch we have lost, and remember only the woman and the friend...
...these new days of the twentieth century men are too apt, like the old Galilean fishermen, to live in the shallows of life. There is a tendency to superficiality in literature, in men's ideas of life and its meaning and in their conception of religion. As the words Jesus rang out over the blue waters of Galile, so they echo down through the ages to men today--"launch out into the deep!" For men to taste the fullness of life and its opportunities, to know the serene and awful depths of the ocean of the spirit of God this...
There are three rules that young men might be advised to follow: First, live in the open air all you can; second, touch elbows with the rank and file; third, talk every day with some one who is your superior. The second of these rules, especially, is not observed here at Harvard. It would be better if we were on good terms with all sorts of people, instead of assuming so often our own superiority. The rank and file turn out a pretty good sort of people, and to associate with them good naturedly and intelligently only tends to broaden...
Success is not the only consideration, but how you are to live and what you are to make of life. Try not only for honor "but walk with God and have God walk with...