Word: looking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...remarks will turn the thoughts of a good many men to a consideration of foreign missionary labor as their line of work for the future. There is great need today for educated young men in all kinds of missionary work. Home missionary work is much more liable to look out for itself, however, than labor of this kind abroad. There is a growing interest today among college men in the great questions which are agitating society. The college settlements and institutions like the Prospect Union are nothing else than one phase of missionary work, though they are not called missions...
...choir sang "Far From My Heavenly Home," by Vincent; "It is Enough" and "Look Down, O Lord," from Mendelssohn's Oratorio of Elijah, with two very good solos by F. S. Rogers...
...hostile fishes. One picture represented a deep-sea fish which attracts its prey by a lure in the shape of a phosphorescent light; another showed a snap-turtle which lies for hours with its mouth open and entices small fish by means of filaments on its tongue which look like worms...
...world no good simply because it lacks opportunity. If it could reach beyond college bounds and could be given something besides itself to spend its energy upon, its energy would greatly increase. The trouble is simply that college men and the "outside world" are a bit apt to look askance at each other and to feel that they have little in common. Yet college men are a part of the world and until they realize that they are citizens and that they have the duties and opportunities of citizens, they must be accounted narrow minded. As citizens, as intelligent beings...
...look at the different sects and denominations which have grouped themselves under the name of religion; we see nothing but conflict and bad feeling, each party accusing the others of heresy or inconsistency; but Christ is watching over the struggle and will direct man to that ideal time when each lover of Jesus shall count his fellow Christian as a brother...