Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...natures and the more highly tempered intellects of every generation, so long as a man has any intuition of what is most sacred in his own emotions and sympathies, or of whatever in outward nature is most capable of awakening them and making them operative, whether to console or strengthen...
...Private charity is the best means of furnishing the necessary aid, because (a) it can best ascertain the actual number of those in absolute want, and (b) by exercising a personal and moral influence it tends to strengthen the laborer's self-dependence...
Criticism has tended to strengthen the faith of mankind in God. Behind the Bible stands Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Christ makes the Bible what it has been to man and without him it sinks to the level of the world's literature. Our faith rests not on the silence of the critics, for they are never silent, but on the Christ who is revealed to us, whose word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path...
...Thames. The trouble is not with the spirit of the men who are now working for the crew; they are doing as good work as can be expected. The difficulty is that a good many men who might well try for the crew and who might, moreover, materially strengthen it, are not trying now and have no intention of doing so. Some of these men have been personally appealed to by Captain Davis and have promised him that they would work for the crew; they have therefore not only been indifferent to class interests but have broken their promises. This...
...state committee, which is the supervisory board. His work would be to form new associations in schools where at present there are none, to strengthen old ones, to superintend in a general way the management of the different organizations, and in every way possible by suggesting new methods and lines of work, to make the associations more useful and effective. Obviously he must be a man of special training and wide experience to accomplish the most possible. He would be helped in his work by the fact that his familiarity with the religious activity in all colleges would enable...