Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...line-up for today's game is as follows: 1908. EXETER. Hadden, l.e. r.e., O'Brien Pell, l.t. r.t., Power Brewer, l.g. r.g., Allen Grant, c. c., Bankart Talbot, r.g. l.g., MacFadyen Warren, r.t. l.t., Peyton Ball, r.e. l.e., Vaughan Starr, q.b. q.b., T. Jones Lincoln, l.h.b. r.h.b., Hart Derby, l.h.b. l.h.b., H. Jones Mason, f.b. f.b., Cooney
...progress of the world is largely due, Bishop Carpenter said, to great personalities, and Jesus Christ was one of these. Unless we remember that he was also a great religious personality, we cannot understand him or appreciate his works. Religion, moreover, is a power in human life so great that no investigation of religious subjects which does not take cognizance of it will ever be satisfactory to a modern audience. We cannot have a religion without a theology, and we cannot estimate the value of our own theology without comparing it with the theologies of others...
Wherein does the power of religion show itself? What is the tendency in a man which makes religion powerful? It is that tendency which makes a man seek to put himself into relationship with the powers of the unseen world. With man in an elementary stage of civilization, the reason for this is that he does not want these unseen powers to be hostile to him. But if the man is to enter successfully into this relationship he must do so on a moral basis. When he does this he makes a transcendent step in advance...
...which this realization of power comes the possibility of pain. On the threshold of life, when we are full of enthusiastic ambitions and expectations, the world challenges us. It is then that we must show our character, manifest our courage and put our manhood to the test. We experience the acceptance of personal responsibility...
...know the curse that falls on every land where impurity is rife, and only the young men can grapple with this. Sometimes we read stories of such cowardice, such brutality and callousness, that we seem to stand literally at the gates of hell. But there is one power which even the gates of hell cannot withstand--the power of the Christian church, and the battle is not ours, it is the Lord...