Word: paths
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Peter Augustus Porter, being of sound mind, do declare this to be my last will and testament, feeling to its full extent the probability that I may not return from the path of duty on which I have entered. If it please God that it be so, I can say, with truth, that I have entered on the course of danger with no ambitio us aspirations, nor with the idea that I am fitted, by nature or experience, to be of any important service to the government; but in obedience to the call of duty demanding of every citizen...
...were not free agents, he said, it would be unnecessary to ask how we should choose and regulate our path in life. But we are not automatons and must work out our own destiny. In our work as students, in our social life and amusements we often magnify unimportant things and leave unnoticed the more important. It is so in religious life. We often emphasize faith in our religion and neglect works. The most discouraging part of the controversies on church questions is the magnifying of unessential things. If we would observe the true proportion of things as their natural...
...broad jump Harvard received her last disappointment. Bloss won only second place. It is to be said in explanation that the running path was excessively heavy, preventing Bloss from getting the speed which is the essential part of his jump. Accordingly, he fell a few inches short of Sheldon of Yale, who, depending rather on his spring than on his run, cleared 21ft. 9 3-4 in. Wheelwright won third place...
...aspirations we are too apt to be thwarted by the obstacles which the over cautious or suspicious thrust before us. The man with a measuring line comes to us and lays down in accurate terms all the mountainous obstacles which lie in our path. The twelve disciples were sent out to convert the world; the same surveyor presented to them a careful estimate of the great indifference of the human race towards religion, the pagan armies of the mighty Roman Empire which must be overcome, but the little band of twelve did what they could from year to year until...
...without him it sinks to the level of the world's literature. Our faith rests not on the silence of the critics, for they are never silent, but on the Christ who is revealed to us, whose word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path...