Word: puree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...certain beliefs or even those who have lived virtuous lives. Christ never said exactly what it was. He compared it to many things but never defined it. If we study his teachings we learn that he is preparing a kingdom of all those who are trying to lead a pure, true life, and who seek to serve God, and love Him with all their hearts...
...with Christ it must be personal and close. Christ told his disciples to go and bear witness of him to men, and tell others what his teachings had been to them. This was the duty he expected of all his followers. A Christian must first be manly, noble and pure himself, and then teach others how to be so. The hardest part of a Christian's life was to confess God man to man, to try to make other men true and earnest in their life. Yet this is the duty of every Christian...
...noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against darker days. It is the books which heighten and clarify the character, whose seciety I would bid you seek. I think they tend to keep us pure. They disinfect the imagination; they fill the memory with light and fragrance. Whatever a man's station, whatever his other opportunities, there is one Company from which he can never be excluded, and it is that of the master-spirits of all the centuries. When one reads Boswell, he cannot...
...future existence spent in a white robe, with a golden crown on his head listening to music? or who is terrified at the prospect of having a spirit bound by iron chains and tortured with material fire? No one, surely, but we do look forward to having a pure and spotless heart, to being crowned by royalty of character, and we do fear the iron chains of habit and the torture of remorse. What now does this allegory in the Revelation mean? These four beings, rather than beasts, are personifications of four qualities necessary to the acceptable service...
...There are, to be sure, able men for whom the conditions of finances, health, or intellectual work make participation in athletics unadvisable, and with such men no one quarrels. But when a man could probably with practice do something for the University and shrinks from the attempt out of pure languidness; when he refuses to do anything unless he feels confident that he himself will be chiefly benefited; when, in a word, he chooses to indulge his own whim, rather than aid the University, then he is contemptible. We should like to see a sentiment here that would stigmatize every...