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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...
Jesus taught the loftiest moral and religious truth, and embodied this in a life which gave it power over the hearts and lives of men. We have received from Him our highest thought of religion and of duty, and this thought has come to us warm and living through his personality. If religion and duty are of more vital importance to us than anything beside, then we owe to Him such a debt as we owe to no other...
...highest test of a man; it is the ability "to walk and not be wearied," to plod along day after day, and not give up the fight. Yet the prophet tells us that we shall have all this, if we will but serve the Lord. The loftiest emotions will come to us, our enthusiasm will not die out and we shall receive the courage "to walk without being wearied." During the evening the choir sang the following anthems: I will Sing of Thy Power-Sullivan; Selections from Miserere by F. Boot; Come Unto Me-Coener: Soloist-Mr. Herbert Johnson, Boston...
...that plans are making for a number of public meetings, at which addresses are to be made in German by wellknown men. Every movement of this character tending to bring into greater prominence as objects of study, literatures foreign to our own, but containing much that is of the loftiest and purest character must be commended. We shall congratulate the Deutscher Verein for having done useful work, if its plans are successfully carried...
...taken in examination of the recruits. Trifling defects had debarred many from the service. So young men to-day entering into the war of life may be kept from success by small temptations and weakness. The struggle of life requires physical and brain power, as well as the loftiest kind of morality. Drinking is more a sin against self, a sin like gluttony, licentiousness. The brain not only rules the body but it is dependent upon the body; so that an injury to one injures the other. Drinking is largely the first cause which fills prisons and asylums. Drink...