Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wonderful miracles, showing thus not by word but by deed, that they were his chosen people, and that it was His will that they should be freed. The best of all God's revelations to man was the life of Christ on earth. God wished to reval His perfect holiness to men and he did it in the life of Christ. He wished to reveal to men that there was another life after death and this he showed by Christ's resurrection. So always we see God revealing himself to us in action. And even today...
...department of Experimental Engineering at Cornell has just received an automatic calculating machine which is considered the most perfect device of its kind in existence. By means of it any form of arithmetical work can be done up to figures of thirteen digits...
...architecture, and this style has represented the union in earnest effort of heart, head and hand. It is because of the untiring energy with which the masters of these former ages have striven to incarnate the ideas of their epochs in their works, that their results have been so perfect and so lasting...
...that these witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." He said that these witnesses left their clothes with Saul because they feared that in the mob they might be stolen. Accordingly they left them with a man in whom they had perfect confidence, who they knew was in sympathy with them...
...wrong he lays his reputation and his social position at the feet of his friends, trusting that in their hands he is safe. This safety a man cannot find here if he is, for example, untruthful; for, if there is one thing that Harvard University stands for, it is perfect truthfulness in every individual member and as a whole. Many things, however, the student feels that his fellows will regard leniently and accordingly he is willing to go wrong. He would never think of it if he knew that by so doing he would lose all reputation and position...