Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...choose between true happiness and wealth and power. The youth chooses the latter and finds how little profit there is in winning the whole world and losing his own soul. The story is well told. In "Song," C.E.H. prays to taste of pain, of hate, and sin, that he may know what lies beyond. In "Spring Snows," W.C.G. has a pretty conceit; "Should our spring become a winter's day again, can we not build a dream-spring lasting through the years...
...Grind and the Sport," with which the number closes, either Mr. Erwin is a deliberate caricaturist or for once has fallen into a sin of overstatement and violent figure of which his clear insight and good judgements have not before been guilty
...applied to human uses by frank and unsparing speech; fearless follower of Jesus, bearing witness to the truth; lover of righteousness, hater of iniquity; a hero in fight, a saint in prayer; he proclaimed as human invitations the perfection of God, the authority of conscience, the assurance of immortality. 'Sin to rebuke, to break the captive's chains; to call thy brethren forth from want...
...colloquial and the literary. Mr. Sheldon's "Delilah" is badly named, for the pathetic female figure finds no prototype in the Philistine woman, and the hero is anything but a Samson. But the dialogue is well-managed, and the incident is only too true to life. Mr. Carlo's "Sin of the Angels" is a college story dealing, not undiscerningly, with the man who would be president of his class but who is absolutely out of the running. It reflects seriously both on the author and the editors that the third sentence should begin, "Being told, his face flushed." Contributors...
...Hindoos. The teaching of religious morally and religious justice was closely related to law with them, especially in the case of religious commandments such as "Thou shalt not kill." Homicide is the origin of private feud. Apart from the injury done by homicide, there is the great sacramental sin which has to be purified. The only persons who can wipe out this sin are the priests--the sorcerers of religious magic. The curse was the greatest power the priest could use to persecute the criminal...