Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these thoughts suggested that bad habits and evil thoughts were to be removed by the cultivation of those that were good. Social evils should be cured by the influence of pure lives. Forms and dogmas that were outgrown should be supplanted only by better forms and better dogmas. The mind should be relieved of half truths by learning whole truths. The great example of the reformer, after all, was Christ...
When Jesus said, "Believe in me," he meant that men should believe in God through him, that they should open mind and heart to Him and yield themselves to the sway of His holy will. Here was guidance, strength and inspiration...
...make it his life work. His special department was Sanskrit. He was one of the most prominent members of the Oriental Society and of the American Philological Society, of both of which he was president. His genius is plain to all who see through his works the versatility of mind and capacity for labor which they reveal. Dr. Whitney's crowning achievement as a scholar was his Sanskrit grammar, though to the great body of his countrymen the Century Dictionary is his greatest monument...
...throne. Secondly, the shed blood of Jesus cleanses the man himself making him pure and clean and invigorating him with the energy of a new life. In this verse, however, the author is thinking of the shedding, not the use of blood after its being shed. He has in mind the self-sacrificing of men for the life of others, - Esther interposing herself to save the Jews, or the engineer standing by his engine as it rushes on to certain destruction. This spark of heroic fire which is in men is God-like; and Jew or Christian, Mohammedan or Pagan...
...clock each morning, and it is essential that they should be made before this time. The demands on the department have so greatly increased that it is necessary to systematize the work in order that students may be looked after promptly. It is well for students to bear in mind that in the evening a fever is at its greatest height, and any one having fever as shown by chills or "fever" in the morning, should report immediately for he is liable to be worse in the afternoon rather than better. This is necessary as reports later than...