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...land and writes from the point of view of a lover rather than of a casual observer of the region. The last part of the book is devoted to historical data about Alaska, a summary of the necessary articles of food and clothing for the traveller and gold-seeker, and a very complete bibliography of the subject...
...well-being, Christianity enjoins upon us a broad and deep intellectual culture. The old idea was that the true faith could only be preserved by the suppression of free thought, but we find Christ Himself reasoning with men and asking them their opinions. In these days, as always, every seeker after truth is following Christ's teaching. Our colleges and universities have been founded by Christian men for the advancement of Christianity, and built up with Christian toil and sacrifice...
...third man, the seeker for truth, will find when he has studied geology and chemistry and other sciences that there is underlying everything some great purpose. Nature is not thrown together hap-hazard. The greatest scientists have agreed that there is some purpose underneath all the world. So we all are working in God's great purpose and are called by Him. And more than that, we are "called to be saints." By sainthood we understand nothing weak or effeminate, but rather an ideal manhood. In saintliness there is much room for variety, but in all ages, under all circumstances...
...spoils system affects others besides the office seeker and holder. In listening to the demands and weighing the claims of the multitudes of competitors, the time of members of Congress and of the president is unprofitably wasted. They have no leisure for the serious affairs of government, and the evils of this condition of things are shown in the steady deterioration of the legislature at the present day. The active evils of the spoils system were illustrated by Mr. Storey at great length, but cannot be entered into here...
Thomas B. Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, not the seeker for a cabinet place, has promised to Princeton College a fund for the establishment of a prize in the English department to be known as the "Thomas B. Wanamaker English Language Prize...