Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...beautiful humility of life, stands out from the material thinkers of his time. His religious interest was not passive; it was of the critical, "mystical" kind which teaches that if one learns to see God one sees through the vanities of worldliness; that the tumult of the soul comes from loving things not immertal...
...best? I should like to know the thoughtful answer of a graduating class to that question. Plenty of reason there would be for hesitation. Plenty of slavery to circumstances, to the comfort of the moment, to the well-being of the body which seems to leave the soul no chance; plenty of blind loyalty to old tradition; plenty of conventional standards of honor and manliness and morality which make independence and originality of life seem very hard; plenty of selfishness, even of selfishness under the rich guise of self-culture enjoined and accepted as a duty, so that public spirit...
...them who live in it the incorruptible crown is always summoning the willing energies, and the willing energies, hearing their true summons, are always eager to respond. Beyond the little struggles always stretches the great race course with its shining prize-character and service. Nothing can satisfy the soul but them. The soul finds them when it finds God. The soul finds God when it finds them. May we all find them and God, and so attain the crown of life. Amen...
...exercises in Appleton Chapel last evening were conducted by Prof. W. J. Tucker of the Andover Theological School. A man does not intentionally throw away his soul for the world; he cannot indulge himself without some loss to his soul. In all the contests of life man is challenged; he has the choice of place and time. Should be yield to the temptations of the world his soul is lost...
...Peabody, D. D., spoke last evening in Appleton Chapel from a text chosen from Psalms 19: vii., "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." He dwelt upon the "moral law." If a man does all that he ought to do, he will do more good than he will do by some special service. The choir sang, "Christ is risen," Sullivan; "The Lord is my strength," Smart; "Allehele, Sing praises," Whitney...