Word: savioring
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...Francis G. Peabody spoke briefly on the last hours of the Savior. He said that a great lesson might be learned from our Lord's Supper. Jesus never better showed his mission than at this time. He came to minister, not to be ministered unto; and in performing the menial service of washing his disciples' feet, he set his followers a lasting example. We too should minister. It is not a question of ten talents or five talents, but the use we make of them...
...bodies in some one point, but is a complete system in itself. Its leading doctrines are that God is one, His love, wisdom, and providential energy being named in the Bible, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; that he was perfectly revealed in the life of Jesus Christ as the Savior of Mankind; that the scriptures are historically true, adapted outwardly to the degraded times in which they were written, but containing an inner meaning inspired...
...coming from the narrowness of his provincial home, discovers in his new sphere so many new and inspiring ideas that he becomes for a time lost to his former self and forgets in the revelation of the world the duties which bind him to his home. Like the Savior, many a young man finds himself shaken in his reverie by a call to retire from the broad life of the university and go back into the common place of his home life. He feels that he has found the work he was born to do does...
...very outset, Bratt tramples underfoot all unnatural restraints resulting from mawkish feelings of modesty, and, with charming naivete, declares the vast extent of his undertaking. This confession of his own illustrious deeds should silence effectually the rantings of divers crack-brained enthusiasts, who obstinately insist that the savior of the American nation was an obscure negro named Birthingtons Washday...
...arrive at effecting reforms in our instruction? Those who see in the state the only savior address themselves to it. For my own part, I do not think that the state can accomplish these reforms. In the first place, it must be disposed to do so. In France, you know, we are accustomed to charge the government with our private affairs. It is just the way to have them badly managed. We are still in the times of Louis XIV. He says: "L'Etat, c'est moi." We have not as yet dared to reply: "L'Etat, c'est nous...