Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three great qualities of the ministry as a profession are its breadth, its depth, and its height. To scholars its opportunities are great for writing, for leading national religious thought, and for teaching in theological schools. It is thought that a narrow line of thought is prescribed for ministers, but this is not the case. The search for new truth is encouraged and its results are gladly received on all sides. As a schoolmaster, the minister is given an opportunity to develop in young men the qualities of spiritual manhood. As a missionary, he can exert a powerful influence...
...Union, and that their defence of the principles which they held deserves the same commemoration that the University has accorded their more fortunate classmates. "If the University feels proud of her dead sons as men, even though enlisted in the Confederate service, her feelings and not the narrow prejudice of the section in which she happens to be located, should find expression in the memorials she erects...
...When the spring rains come, the water percolates through this body, causing the bottom of it to melt away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height and in such great mass is almost incalculable...