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...George Grey Barnard vowed to devote the rest of his life to a great memorial to the men who died in war and to the women who bore them. In the ensuing months the project clarified in his mind as a gigantic arch, over 100 ft. high, with a mosaic rainbow at its summit. Though few people were interested in helping him build it, Sculptor Barnard was not discouraged. His art had given him an international reputation and a comfortable fortune. He retired into his Manhattan studio to complete his arch with his own hands and his own funds...
...minister's household, situated in a German settlement in New York State. The life that is led there is not melodramatic, and is quite devoid of any pretense to greatness as commonly conceived. Yet each little incident, in itself hardly of vast importance, is worked into a pattern or mosaic which, as a unity, has meaning and significance...
...given me for christening the Meteor. The only difference was in the uniform that he had on, and that the gold was lighter and the diamonds around the miniature smaller in the one that I got for getting married. The present from the King of Italy was a mosaic table, so large and heavy that I have never been able to use it in any of the rather small houses that I have lived in. ... The Em press Dowager sent me an enchanting series of gifts. There were eight rolls of brocade of different colors brocaded in a gold that...
...against man. It is rather a war of ideas-the co-operative idea against the idea of unrestrictive competition-the idea of national welfare against the idea of unrestrictive self-seeking-the New Testament against the Old Testament -the Sermon on the Mount against the Mosaic...
...Sermon on the Mount. Christ referred to the Mosaic Law throughout, expounding and amplifying it. In several cases He quoted the words of Moses and set against them His own principles, thus: "Ye have heard that it hath been said. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you. That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. . . . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your...