Word: mirrors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reflected light to be of value we must have just the right conditions, we must have first a good mirror and secondly a trained observer. If either is wanting the light is of no value. If the mirror is poor, that is if the reflected light be too faint, the best observer can get no good results. Thus often in the troubles and perplexities of life, even those who know God best cannot distinguish His hand. On the other hand, if the mirror be perfect there is nothing told to one who is not a good observer. Thus while...
...Peabody preached last night in Appleton Chapel from the text, "For now we see through a mirror, darkly; but then face to face." This verse, he said, calls our attention at once to the contrast between our present state and the future. Now we cannot understand all things, we cannot know God perfectly. This fact troubles many people and they think that if we cannot know all we can know nothing. But Paul says "now I know in part;" partial knowledge is not to be despised. Our light now is reflected light, but while it comes through a mirror...
...SALE.- Iron bed (single) with brass trimmings. Oak bureau with mirror, and oak washstand, all in good condition. Apply at 1 Matthews, between...
...short stories, "The Salvation of a Missionary" by E. C. Martin, and "Mr. Burbitt's Bible Class" by Marvel Edwards. Neither of of them is very good. The number is unusually rich in short poems, two of which are very good, "The Courting Stick" by Mary Stansbury, and "The Mirror" by Basil Tempest...
...Black's lecture on Defoe drew an audience that completely filled Sever 11. Defoe, said Mr. Black, was a man of action as well as of letters, and in his writings we see English affairs of his time as in a mirror. Not only did he do much and say much, but he saw with exquisite sensibility and expressed with telling force...