Word: loved
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...service in Appleton Chapel last evening was conducted by the Rev. Professor C. A. Briggs, D. D., of Union Seminary, New York, He preached from the text, "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." I John...
...Where, O grave, are thy plagues," is victor over death and is redeemed from the grave. Jesus Christ was such a martyr, for he interposed his life to save his disciples. Christ's life could not be destroyed by physical forces because it was ethical and spiritual. If we love Christ as a martyr we should lay down our lives for the brethren. The call to duty today is no less real than in the days of the martyrs. The age craves heroes - heroes in the professions, in the church, in business, - heroes to face the great social, economic...
...duty, and of a strong Christian faith. His wit was like a New England winter, bracing and keen, sometimes cutting; his heart like the New England June, soft and beautiful; and his whole character like a New England landscape, rugged and strong. He had all the Puritan's love of controversy and all the Puritan's firm confidence in God and His wisdom...
...this spirit of Puritanism, the spirit of simplicity, love of duty, and confidence in God, fast dying out among us? We sometimes congratulate ourselves that we live in better times than the Puritans, and we think that their rugged dutiful lives were much harder than was necessary. We live in luxury, sometimes we sneer at duty, and unfortunately there is not among us a great deal of simple and strong faith in God Many social evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others...
...country village in New England. The jovial "Dr. Syntax" esteems it his duty to make everybody happy, and, luckily for his protegees, his opportunities to carry out this benevolent plan are many, for the young lady pupils of Minerva Academy - in which he is an instructor - are all in love with the young men in a neighboring college, and the principal of the seminary - an elderly maiden named Zenobia Tropics - very naturally does not approve of moonlight strolls and the customary flirtations usually indulged in by boarding-school misses...