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Only as we enter into the consciousness of the will of God can we resist the sordid temptations that beset...
...Union has been one of the most marked successes that has ever recompensed efforts to bring education of a more advanced character within the reach and the desires of the working people. The Union has opened a new world of interests to hundreds of people whose lives before were sordid and cramped. Even if the reflex good which comes to teachers were not considered, the labor spent on the Union is assuredly well directed...
...more complicated circumstances. In this class of his writings he introduces together with realistic detail, a type which is brought out and emphasized by his skill in individualizing character. "A Modern Instance" is an example of this style of novel and although furiously attacked for the grim and sordid tastes which it details, is yet to be considered one of his best three books. A man who can draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them live and move in the sordid environment of a third rate journalism certainly did not merit the storm...
...trustfulness is seldom duly appreciated. If Abraham was faithful in his willingness to sacrifice his son at God's bidding. Isaac was also trustful in giving himself when he had heard no command. Isaac's life was pure, honest and practical. Jacob was, at first, mean and sordid; he ground his brother's inheritance from him and cheated his father. However, the trouble that came to him in later life helped to make him God's child. And at all periods God has been the God of every class of men, and not of the saint alone. The influence...
...afternoon, Dr. Hale officiated, assisted by Dr. F. G. Peabody. In his address, Dr. Hale spoke of two classes of people, the one composed of those who go to their daily work without thought of future reward; the other, composed of those whose minds are filled with selfish and sordid purposes. People of the first class are successful simply because they have interest in the work itself. That interest is not purchased by bribery, is not caused by fear of consequences; but is present because God is working out his purposes through these earnest men and women...