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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from another such company; both have the same light heartedness, both enjoy the same things, both live in much the same way. Yet in the details of these trips-and the details really give them their local character-there is a vast difference. The following then, will be a sort of elaborated itinerary of a journey of about twenty nine hundred miles, with special attention to the points in which this journey differs from others of the same kind...
...idea of a God who watches and cares for the mortals on the earth. But there is a third class, in whose hearts the cry of the poor father for a strengthening of his faith, would find a ready response. They are among those who have a sort of faith in God, but whose belief is so small as to be of little comfort to them. The great cry of our generation is "I do not know." This lack of strong conviction is found in spiritual things as well as in temporal. The text found in the epistle to James...
Society now assumes that if a man is to pose as a preacher in abstinence he at least must be an abstainer himself. Sixty years ago it was the custom to drink free y at meeting of nearly every sort and it was no disgrace for a young man to be seen drunk, yet how different it is at the present time. A man is ashamed of himself if found intoxicated...
Power is a visible force. It almost always shows itself in violence of some sort and its instruments are consequently strife, war, and death. But history shows that power has come more and more under the sway of justice, right and love. Kings have found that the abuse of power endangers their own lives and that to make themselves secure they must temper power with humanity. Social power feels its duty toward the ignorant and all the forces of education and religion are being brought to bear on the problem of their salvation. Humanity, then, has influenced power...
...attempted last year; that of publishing a colored frontispiece. It must be acknowledged that the success of the plan in the present instance is beyond question. And this attractive beginning opens a number devoted extensively to art. There are no less than four articles on art-work of one sort and another. The leading contribution is on "The Moral Painting in the Pantheon and Hotel de Ville of Paris" by Will H. Low. It is richly illustrated from the cartoons of the leading French painters...