Word: pray
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from so lofty a station, and meet Princeton half way, the clouds will forever he cleared away. We need not then expect in the fall of 1887 to witness a repetition of the hackneyed and puerile squabble with which we have been burdened for so long a time. We pray and hope for the best...
...will be of little use. Is it not plain that moral teaching gets its strength, not from the fact that men are made to hear it, but from the fact that they are willing to receive it? In Dr. Hale's own words, - "no one was ever compelled to pray, or ever can be." We urge, therefore, with the deepest sincerity, that moral teaching is of value only when it is offered to men freely, and they receive it willingly...
...prayers. There is but one thing essential to their being defensible; that they become prayers. If the men who established them had been told - "These prayers will be a mere roll-call, a practice kept up for fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained to believe that those devout men would have preferred to establish no prayers, to devise some other...
...accomplish this object, one change among others seems necessary in this service - to omit all extemporaneous prayer. If the student goes to pray, he must not be exposed to the caprices of any individual; he must not be waiting to hear what he is to pray for; he must be borne along by a familiar service which gives utterance to the primary, daily needs of every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring...
...President Arthur is suggested by the Hour for president of Yale College. If that should come about the boys would want to get up at 3 a.m. to pray. - B. Post...