Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there is an exhortation as well as an object lesson in the parable. Unlike the clay the human being has power to resist the operation of the wheel and the potter's hand. A man predetermins his own course. He may from choice make himself, against conscience and God, bad. The responsibility, then, rests on each of us to cooperate with, rather than resist the forces which are shaping our lives...
Owing to the inclement weather there was an unusually small attendance at the Chapel yesterday and Rev. Edward Everett Hale gave an informal talk on temptations. The great secret of successful resistance of temptation is immediate resistance. Christ did not hesitate but said at once: "Get thee behind Me Satan." The accounts of Christ's temptations are often thrust in the back-ground, yet men are tempted in the same way today. The temptation of the Pope to plunge nations into war that he may regain his temporal power resembles the temptation on the mountain; the temptation of business...
That the effect upon the moral condition of the college has been to deepen and animate the religious element in student life, to raise the standard of good couduct, to increase the power to resist temptations usually incident to large assemblages of young men, and to secure the general quiet and good order of the institution...
...depends on the idea that the body should be kept pure, as God made it. The men who succeed in life are those who live according to this rule. The worst of it is that the affectionate, poetical, generous men of genius are apt to be those who cannot resist temptation...
...already been started be supported by the best efforts of every man, and that the members make attempts to get freshmen to join the class, as well as the society itself and thus help to bring these men under good influences instead of letting them all yield to, or resist temptation alone and in their...