Word: thief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Frank Leslie's -- "The Mill," by Rev. Henry van Dyke h.'94; "On the Acting of Richard Mansfield," by William Winter '57L.; "The Autobiography of a Thief," by H. Hapgood...
...Jesus meant by the lavishness and prodigality of God was revealed in his own life--a life that never spared its energies, that gave of its richest and fullest powers to the outcast woman at the well in Samaria, to the fishermen by the sea of Galilee to the thief upon the cross. He knew that of the seeds he scattered so lavishly, though many fell amid rocks and thorns, some would fall where they would yield fruit, "some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold;" through his prodigality of gift he saw the possibility of the prodigality of return...