Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tucker spoke upon the subject of repentance, illustrating his sermon by telling how John the Baptist and Jesus Christ called their hearers to repentance. He went on to show how difficult it is for all classes of men to really repent. Some cannot reach the individuality of their sin because they are a part of a great army which sweeps them on in its progress and restrains them from acting independently as they might if they were alone. Others fall into a kind of mental indifference from which they seem to be unable to rouse themselves; they can not throw...
Perhaps he may be wrong, but far better have false opinions than have none at all. The unpardonable sin is inertia; a man who is not firm becomes nothing more than a nonenity...
...problem is not different from that which confronted Jesus. No man is right, moral or ethical, whose life has not been a sacrifice whereby the world may attain to perfection. The Christian is the man who makes the problem of his life the bearing away of the sin of the world. This is not the denial of life, but the denial of self. The things of life are made sacred by being consecrated to the common good. By sacrifice the life is saved, and made morally whole. Human progress has tracked its every step in the blood of those...
Professor Peabody came last on the list of speakers. He also spoke of the Association's good work, and congratulated it on its present prosperity. He said that the besetting sin of college life was not open dissipation, but a tendency to irresponsibility...
Christ came as the witness of the truth, and His was the life of noble selfsacrifice. He trampled sin to death without deigning to look down on it and yet His authority was always gently asserted to His followers, although their plodding stupidity must have been a continual trial to Him. If we but know Christ for what He is we can not help but acknowledge Him in our hearts. We cannot help but recognize His fortitude and courage in saying "Follow Me." No even death could thwart His purpose. The highest place left for a man today is behind...