Word: objects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...party platform is the definition of the means by which a party hopes to perpetuate the welfare of the nation, and is founded on moral principles quite as important as those underlying the struggle for Civil Service Reform. The welfare of society has been at times considered the object of all government. It is the avowed object of a political party. And, when a man in whose hands the welfare of the people has been entrusted by a great commonwealth, can be persuaded to come here and explain the principles and methods by which some of the greatest intellects...
...Bible. In his sermon the minister should be careful not to express ideas which challenge direct comparison with the theories of such world-leaders as St. John and St. Paul. The lifting of the voice in prayer is the last and most important feature of the ritual. The object of the service is to bring the congregation in touch with the spirit of the God who presides over them and the minister can best do this by expressing the common needs of those before him in the simplest possible words. No man puts words to a better use than...
...discussions of public questions as are not to be heard elsewhere. There have been meeting of this kind and there ought to be more; they are of high value to the students. It is because the practical means for holding such meetings seems to be cut off, that we object to the Corporation's action...
...always tried to accommodate and encourage every form of athletics and the Tennis Association has more than once been benefited by them. The present action has been taken without any notice, beyond mere rumor, being given to the baseball management and it has been given no opportunity to object. The graduate manager is opposed to it and the tennis association alone will not be under his management. Considering all these things it seems to me that the students of the University are called upon to object to the action that has been so suddenly begun...
Fifty years ago, he said, the object of every Christian church was to find out how the early church was managed and then to base on this its own organization. But now everything is changed. No church would want to change its forms of service and government and accommodate itself to the primitive methods of the early Christians which would very naturally be now utterly impracticable. That this is true was conclusively shown about twelve years ago when a manuscript was found showing how the church was managed in the first century. When the discovery was announced every sect, Baptist...