Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...what a church is and the opportunities for hearing the word of God preached are very many. In foreign countries where the gospel has never been preached there are millions of persons who have never even heard the name of God, who never will hear it unless we Christians rise as one man and say this state of things must not be. The Church has blinded her eyes to this crying need for foreign missionary work and has magnified the need at home. So she sends one man into the foreign field while she keeps a hundred at home...
...legend into prominence, should see in it the story of the fall of man, but it is possible that something of value can be learned from the other side of the shield, namely, the idea that with the first loss of innocence came the first step in the rise of man. As will be seen, this statement does not involve a paradox...
...fights bravely and at last successfully against his temptation it may in reality become to him a tree of life, for the strength gained in fighting the temptation he might without it have never had. To conquer temptation man must bury all ambition, wealth and power and rise with the spirit of Christian whom alone is power to overcome all evil...
...confess that it is with more and more diffidence that I rise every year to have my little talk with you about books and the men that have written them. If I remember my terrestrial globe rightly, one gets into his temperate zone after passing the parallel of forty, and arrives at that shall I call it Sheltered Haven of Middle Age, when, in proportion as one is more careful of the conclusions he arrives at, he is less zealous in his desire that all mankind should agree with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does...
Every one at the Tree will be requested to rise and sing "Fair Harvard." Seniors are expected to know the first two verses...