Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Further, it is held that when God answers a prayer, His will must be changed; and this is opposed to the conception of His changelessness. We answer that His purpose is always the same and that on this very account its outward form of expression must change, even as a father's love for his child, though always remaining the same, will show itself in ever varying ways...
This change has also affected the outward requirements of religion. People have come to believe that there is not a quality in any of us which is not capable of consecration and lofty use. Christian influences are growing every where and we should do our part to help this growth. To do this we must be religious ourselves. We should enter into the life of other students for the self culture it gives us and the stimulus for own work. We should take special care not to limit our work to any one class of men, remembering at the same...
...truth in the abstract. His grasp of external fact was always feeble in comparison to his perception of his own inner life. His religion always looked for its ultimate sanction to his own consciousness. This extreme subjectivity manifests itself further in a disposition to doubt the reality of the outward aspects of nature. His childish idealism took form in a belief that 'life might be a dream or I an angel and all the world a deception, my fellow angels by a playful device concealing themselves from me and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world...
Prof. Goodale advocated the teaching of botany to children and defined clearly the parts of the subject which he thought within their grasp. They may study the outward form and more or less of the inward, cell structure of plants; the underlying idea, the vegetal morphology, may also be discovered by them. The child, however, cannot be expected to understand the classification of plants into families, their knowledge must be general, not specific...
...outward appearance of the volume is similar to that of last year. The covers are crimson with gilt lettering, but to the simple lettering on the front cover of last year there is added a very effective representation of the college seal. The illustrated advertisement on the back cover is also an innovation, and a rather pleasing...