Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nation as secretary of state, as vice-president, and as president, but through all the course of his political life he kept up to the end his interest in agriculture, hunting and fishing. And as he "believed in agriculture as first in utility and therefore first in mankind's respect," Thomas Jefferson deserves the name of a "true country gentleman...
...Philip S. Moxom, of Boston, delivered a sermon last night on a text from Matthew vi: 10-"Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." This is the most universal prayer of mankind; it includes everything that can be asked for from God. It confesses the imperfection of the human being, of human institutions. It acknowledges the prevalence of weakness, sin and despair in the human heart. At the same time it expresses an unfaltering trust in the goodness and justice of God. It even expresses a belief that in the end the kingdom...
...some one point, but is a complete system in itself. Its leading doctrines are that God is one, His love, wisdom, and providential energy being named in the Bible, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; that he was perfectly revealed in the life of Jesus Christ as the Savior of Mankind; that the scriptures are historically true, adapted outwardly to the degraded times in which they were written, but containing an inner meaning inspired...
...Boston Saturday Evening Gazette on Harvard graduates the purpose of which was to show what became of the graduates on leaving college. As soon as the man is graduated and enters upon the duties of the world he finds himself no higher than the rest of mankind. He has a fair knowledge of the languages, is not unacquainted with philosophy and political economy, but for practical affairs of business or professional life he finds himself quite in the same position as the man without college training. If he devotes himself to law or medicine he is buried in his studies...
...text, "My peace I give unto you." It was the Lord Jesus who said this, at the last supper with the disciples. What was this peace that Jesus had? Where did he get it? Was he exempt from human suffering? No. Was he indifferent to the opinion of mankind? No Did he have the enthusiasm of the fanatic? Such a man would not have been silent. Suffering the acutest agony a human being can endure, having before him the shame of a felon's death, unsupported by any blind enthusiasm or by the impulse of a multitude, his mind...