Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...soothing like a narcotic, but nourishing and stimulating. If we believe in Him, we will not worry about the mysteries of future life, but leave all to Him. He will reveal these mysteries at some future time. It we are bewildered by the abundance of strife and sin in the world, let us recollect that the kingdom of which Christ is the foundation can not be swept away by the tempests of falsehood and disbelief. The day is coming when strife and sin shall be no more, and the perfect light of love shall prevail over the world...
...graduate number of the Advocate, which is issued today, contains the following articles: "editorials," by W. G. Peckham '67; "The Maiden and the Meadow," by J. A. Macy '99; "Little Coat-tails," by R. P. Utter '98; "Poverty is No Sin, but Twice as Bad," by W. R. Castle, Jr., '00; "One Folly and Three Fears," by R. W. Child '03; "Pieces of the Game," by P. A. Hutchison...
There is the usual grist of light jingles; an accurate and appropriate editorial with just a touch of joviality; special notices and printed notes of average entertaining power; some rules for the deportment of Freshmen at beer nights,--excellent if seriously meant; a timely satire upon our besetting sin of megalomania; and a truly amusing "take-off" of Mr. Walter Camp's "last words" on football...
...liberty." He was followed by Bishop Lawrence, who spoke briefly on religion as part of the normal and natural life, neglect of which by the college man must mean irreparable loss. Indifference to religion by the college man is due, he said, not so much to doubts or to sin as to the habit of drifting...
...whole spiritual world. The "Divina Commedia" offers unquestionably the best opportunity for studying his ideas and purposes. What Dante sees in his vision of Hell is the natural reaction of conduct upon character: the suffering which he portrays has not been arbitrarily inflicted, but is the logical result of sin. His mind, despite his liberal tendencies, was of the seventeenth century type. The grim symbolism of his Hell is as stern and terrible as human realism can contemplate...