Word: mistook
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...preacher had tried all the pleasures that this world can offer or at least what are usually regarded as the pleasures that this world can ofers, and he had found them nothing but emptiness and folly. The trouble with him was that he mistook the means for the end, he regarded the temporary things of the world, such as houses and fine clothes, as all that can be found here; but Paul has found something more, something abiding forever, which cannot pass away. First he places faith. At once we are inclined to say this is not anything abiding...