Word: savings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clean and invigorating him with the energy of a new life. In this verse, however, the author is thinking of the shedding, not the use of blood after its being shed. He has in mind the self-sacrificing of men for the life of others, - Esther interposing herself to save the Jews, or the engineer standing by his engine as it rushes on to certain destruction. This spark of heroic fire which is in men is God-like; and Jew or Christian, Mohammedan or Pagan, who can look death in the face and say, "Where, O grave, are thy plagues...
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. - Mr. F. A. Heizer will address the meeting at 6.45 tonight on the subject: "Seek and save that which is lost," Luke XIX. All members of the University are cordially invited...
...pity for the poor, their hunger, their ignorance, and their lack of leaders? He had no patent remedy, no ingenious social reform schemes. He said: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
...these were taken up by the people, the national church began. Its creed is now that of sixty-nine of the seventy millions inhabitants of the United States. Of these the great majority believe that the soul is immortal, and that God, in his love, sent Jesus Christ to save mankind; all unite in firm belief in a God who is a mighty power of law and love to his children; and the creed of the national church, whose head is the American people, is maintained by them in defiance of all theological dogmas...
...would facilitate the transaction of business by Congress. - (a) It would remove the necessity of requiring written answers from heads of departments. - (b) It would save time, because a programme of action could be made out before Congress meets. - (c) It would ensure the pursuit of a definite policy. - (d) It would provide discussion by Cabinet ministers who are specialists...