Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...life. If ever in following his own desires he has done a just, a kindly act, he can find in that, evidence of God; for justice and charity are divine attributes. In society, politics, science, poetry, we see the same truth made manifest, - if the heart be not right, if the life be not pure, each in the end will cast us out. When the world be so purified we shall have reached the perfect state. "I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first earth hath passed away...
...part of orthodox parents and friends of young men who are studying in the Institute of Technology in this city, that some of the instructors go out of their way to say things intended - and having the effect - to weaken the hold of Christianity upon their minds. What right have these teachers, if unbelievers themselves, to use the opportunity of their station and their influence over the young minds under their care to undermine Christian faith? It is the most objectionable form of sectarianism...
...will be simplified and the trouble abated. It is this thoughtlessness, and only thoughtlessness, without question, which causes all the trouble. A little more thought and a little less selfishness will result in far more satisfactory results to all. But because this subject is hackneyed no man has a right in common justice to neglect the matter...
...members of the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality only at Sever's Saturday morning, December 4th from 9 to 12 o'clock. After 12 o'clock they can be obtained by the general public. In getting tickets, members of the Glee Club can only choose seats from the right side of the theatre, members of the Pierian from the left side. Any member who succeeds in selling 15 or more tickets can have two tickets gratis...
...Peruthanhs the opening verse of the number is delicate, but not well rounded. Of the prose contributions, the charming little sketch, "Where the Muse Abideth," is perhaps the best, it is followed by another sketch, "An Unpleasant Reminiscence," which is decidedly disappointing. As to the two stories, "Right or Wrong?" and "Violin," the former is a peculiar but not unlikely tale well brought out, the latter is a vivid piece of writing rather packing in moral tone. A story with a moral tacked on the end is usually tiresome, a story like "Violin" without a moral scattered through it deserves...