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...noteworthy that the draft bill provides for the exemption of conscientious objectors to military service. That is a necessary, although theoretically not just, provision. Like the proverbial horse which refuses to quench its thirst, a man who will not fight, will not. Not Mr. Roosevelt, nor patriotism, nor the fear of death may force him. The burden of defending the irreconcilibly peaceful must be borne by those who prefer existence to peace...
...life to all the nation's engaged in it. May we not hope that the universal striving for inner reconstruction, the newly-awakened longing for a higher civic consciousness, the ideal of a national life devoted to the cultivation of the highest powers of the individual, will finally quench the blind passions and violent hatreds inflamed by the war, so that a regenerated Europe will more firmly-than ever before, believe in international brotherhood...
...whole, these festivals were among the most effective, from a spectacular point of view, that Paris had ever beheld, and they proved once more that in the matter of fetes not even the horrors of the Reign of Terror could quench the French love of excitement and display...
...George A. Gordon preached as Appleton Chapel last evening. He found his text in I Thessalonians 5: 19. "Quench not the spirit." He said that every right young person stands on the threshold of life in admiration and awe. The vastness and solemnity of the structure before him, and the instinct sympathy of the young with the divine thought, unite to rouse reverence in him. If this spirit were permanent there would never be any gratifying of the lusts of the flesh. But as we grow old, we lose our delicate susceptibility to the breathing spirit of God. We quench...
...gymnasium. He is to look after the general physical welfare of the students and not to devote himself to any specialty. In appointing any man for a special sport, as base ball, or rowing, they would be encouraging a professional spirit, which it is their object to quench...