Word: seeded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us; it revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness, so that we walk invisible like fern-seed, and witness unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators, or Guy Fawkes in the cellar of St. Stephen's. We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit...
...feel a lack in your heart which used to lend a certain elasticity to life which is now gone. If all this seems true then you may know that you have faith. Jesus said if you have faith "even as a grain of mustard seed" you should be saved. But a mustard seed to grow must be planted, and a faith to be helpful must be tried...
...William Everett, contrasted the policy of the republicans, with nature, which always plants where the seed will grow. The republicans never suited their policy to the conditions under which it was to take effect...
...exhortations to trust, to cease all anxiety and rest in the faith that God is over all that seems so doubtful and unsure. The work that one man can do is small and seems almost useless, but this is no reason for worrying about it. As the farmer puts seed into the ground and then trusts implicitly that fruit will come of it, and as he knows that no anxiety on his part can help its growth, so ought every man to be calm in the faith that, when he has done his part fully. God will care...