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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...time of the higher Renaissance in Florence, he said, was the sixteenth century. This was a period in which all Italy was undergoing a great change. For the first time since the fall of Rome Italians were beginning to feel an interest in science and philosophy, to look to reason rather than to religion for explanation and for truth. Still the age was in a way a religious age, though the religion was of the intellect rather than of the heart. But while the character of the race was rising from an intellectual point of view it was deteriorating...
...have views so opposed to one another that evidently one of them must have been very much in the wrong. And is it not so that viewed from certain standpoints there seems to be an element of truth in the words of the old preacher? Does it not sometimes look as if all this world was vanity and vexation of spirit? Is the reward of this world worth the price we pay for it? The old preacher had tried all the pleasures that this world can offer or at least what are usually regarded as the pleasures that this world...
...Looking upon the development of character from the most selfish standpoint, when we try only to make ourselves good and strong, it is easy to see that a thing most necessary and helpful is the doing of good to others. No character can be noble or strong that is wrapped up in itself, for a selfish and self-centered man is the meanest and most hopeless of all creatures. But every one can find some way of doing good in his daily work. It is not necessary that everybody should be a founder or even a helper of great charitable...
...choir sang "O 'Twas a Joyful Sound," by H. W. Parker; "They that Wait upon the Lord," by Stainer; "Look Down O Lord," by Mendelssohn...
...best of this April day comes in the evening when the clouds, scattered by a fresh west wind, float airliy away, reflecting the golden rays of the setting sun. This is the old age which we are to look forward to. He who walks with God has laid up for himself a crown of rejoicing which, if he received it not in this world, is so close to him that it is reflected on his brow in his last moments...