Word: repents
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...frigidity of the environment, believe in hell with a peculiar ferocity. A boy is about to die in the company of his sister and a parson, who looks in at the last moment to say that the boy is certain to go to hell if he does not repent immediately. As there is nothing in particular to repent of, the boy is considerably upset and distressed, until his sister turns out the parson and assures her brother it is all a mistake. This cheerful little piece has a certain genuine pathos and is written with a feeling for style...
...real, very definite, and not at all visionary black book kept by the Athletic Association with much labor and accuracy. Aside from all questions of morals and college spirit it is no whit short of blind foolhardiness that could lead a man to take the risk of having to repent at leisure, when the paltry profit made from ticket speculation has vanished into thin...
...Tucker spoke upon the subject of repentance, illustrating his sermon by telling how John the Baptist and Jesus Christ called their hearers to repentance. He went on to show how difficult it is for all classes of men to really repent. Some cannot reach the individuality of their sin because they are a part of a great army which sweeps them on in its progress and restrains them from acting independently as they might if they were alone. Others fall into a kind of mental indifference from which they seem to be unable to rouse themselves; they can not throw...
...greatest value of religion now-a-days is to create a state of mind in which repentance is possible; when it fails to do this it becomes worthless. The religion of today is not as effective as it should be. Men need some power which will show them how to repent and can help them to do it. The Kingdom of Heaven is always at hand to every...
Bishop Vincent conducted the Vesper Service in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon, taking for his text part of the seventeenth verse of the third chapter of St. Matthew: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand...