Word: steadfastly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cranks. The child must have it; the scientist and the mechanic. By reverence alone, which is the hiding of the eyes before the mystery and the majesty of God, can we know and see God. This deep feeling of reverence does not come from palsied inactivity, but from steadfast work. The more we serve God, the more sublime and mysterious He becomes and the more we discover the significance of our reverence. The man who forgets himself in his work, who does not waste his energy by dividing his thoughts between himself and his work and who does not banish...
...today He stands asking us all for our best room. The promises He made that night have been the basis of the hope and prayers of His followers ever since. Let us yield Him our best room, our best efforts, and He will inspire us with lofty aims and steadfast courage. Mr. William L. Whitney sang "Tears of grief, shame and anguish," from Spohr's "Calvary," and the choir sang the "Chorus of the Sons of Japhet," from Rubinstein's "Tower of Babel...
...death of Abner Ernest Strong, we feel that the hand of Providence has taken from our number one whose earnest life, high endeavor, and steadfast character has gained our sincere respect and esteem. As his classmates, we have recognized his success as a student; as his friends, we have seen those genial qualities which spring from generous impulse and which cement true friendship. We remember, too, at the time, with satisfaction his deep and constant Christian faith and his active Christian influence. At the same time we feel, and desire to express a heartfelt serrow at the loss we have...
...church they may attain their end. But we are satisfied that they are making a great blunder. They are trying to win those who are out of the fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion really does not attract, but does repel, those for whose good it is exerted; if it tends to confirm in the irreligious their opposition, and to send them out into...
...eternal truth and duty, the essential unity of all good things shall be made manifest and clear. How can we better close than with these words out of the same epistle to the Hebrews: "We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast into the end." There is no break in such a history as ours. To ever larger duty, to ever larger truth, the old college goes forth under the perpetual inspirations of faith in God and faith in man. Those two together make the faith of Christ. May He who has been...