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Surely such a man cannot die. He still lives in the hearts of all whom he has left behind. Nor yet is he idle. He has only gone to a larger and nobler field...
...best self. He does not wish, in this sacrifice what men are apt to suppose. He does not ask surrender of the best of life, but calls to the higher life when men would choose the lower. He asks for souls, to make them richer and nobler than they could even dream of by themselves, and He wishes to strengthen and beautify, not merely to possess. Men are slow to realize that this sacrifice which seems so hard is infinitely the greatest blessing, that it means the exchange of a life of care and misery for one of highest happiness...
...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...
...eternity, and these ideals are never fulfilled in the earthly life. Man is a mortal being, but he is above mortality in that he looks beyond it. Does the belief in immortality degrade the world? History tells us, No! The larger and brighter the belief in immortality, the nobler and better the life on this earth...