Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prayer set for colleges. Dr. Herford spoke of two kinds of prayer, the prayer of the heart and the prayer of the hands. Besides our inward supplication to God, we should strive by our own deeds to make the University to which we belong better and nobler than when we found it. College men should lead not merely their own private, selfish lives, but they should live in the broader life of the University, and do their best to keep alive and promote all the higher interests which belong to an institution like Harvard...
...third chapter of Revelations, in which the angel of Laodicea is rebuked for being neither hot nor cold. He showed how this passage is a warning to all that are at ease, and say "I need nothing." We must always seek something greater and fuller, always stive for nobler things, and finally, when we have come to deserve God, He will come to us. We should find some task which human powers have failed to do, and which can only be done by divine power, and then by setting to work upon it we shall receive help from...