Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...birth of Christ, the day of His birth and resurrection into immortal life was sacred. In our day we may observe the resurrection of Christ as an historical fact-he may be risen in our opinions, but not in our lives. We are apt to confound real life and real death. The truths of the New Testament are not always before us; we do not realize that we may be in the best of health, and yet be utterly dead-that we may be dying and yet have an abundance of real life. Real resurrection for us means the change...
...Professor F. G. Peabody preached in Appleton Chapel last evening. He took his text from the 19th verse of the 2d chapter of the Epistle of Paul to Timothy. The foundation of Christianity, Dr. Peabody said, is, according to the Pauline doctrine, a belief in one real God, in one real truth, and not in the mass of doctrine accumalated by years. Man should not have many beliefs, but much belief in something. Let the essentials for religious conviction grow less as man grows older, but let them grow larger; that would not show a decline of faith...
...beginning of the last and shortest term of the year, a term that is by far the pleasantest as well as the most filled with hard work, both in study and athletics. This season is especially the athletic season of the year. It is the time when the real work of the year must be done, the faults of the winter and spring corrected, when every effort must be made to wrest victory from our rivals on field and water in the games and races that are now close at hand...
...School. Preliminary to the exhibition of the tablets the lecturer spoke of the general class of writing to which they belong, the civil, social, and translated several published documents from the reigns of Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonida. These translations related to gifts to the temples, loans, sale of slaves and real estate, marriage, partnership and legal decisions. Such information makes it possible for us to have a very clear view of the social life of the times. This was just the period of the Jewish exile. The tablets also throw light on contemporary political history and on the method of reckoning...
Harvard has often been reproached for her indifference to the affairs of the outside world. This attempt to bring her into closer contact with the real needs and problems of the day, not by arousing an interest, but by giving proper expression to an interest which already exists, will be welcomed by all who care for her reputation and influence...