Word: sow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Many men think that in their youths they can sow their wild oats and live for pleasure. When they are ready to settle in life, they say, they will reform and become pure, religious men. They are mistaken. There is no short cut from sin to righteousness, and the only thing that can atone for their past is a complete change of inner feeling, which will not come at command. Good aspirations must precede any effort to reform, and the starting point must be the change of the very purpose of one's life...
...choir sang the anthems "Sleepers, wake, a voice is calling" and "sow Lovely are the Messengers" from Mendelssohn's Oratorio "St. Paul." Mr. Merrill and Mr. Thomas sang the duet "Now we are Ambassadors," also from "St. Paul...