Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some one may urge here that consciousness is necessary. No man can use power unless he is conscious that he has it. This is true. Individuality and personality are necessary but they are very different from that self-consciousness which leads a man to think primarily of his own virtues. Peter. Paul and John may have been self-conscious before Christ came, but when He came His mightier personality transformed them. They did not lose their own personalities; they simply forgot everything except the message of this greater Power...
...partly through indifference real or feigned and partly through a false and perhaps unmanly feeling that the services, especially morning prayers, are a part of college life unimportant and not worth attendance. The average college man recognizes morning prayers as an institution which must be, but which he thinks have no place in his every day life, and that the time spent in attending them would be but a waste on his part. It may perhaps be too strong to apply this to college men in general, or to assert that they think attendance at prayers unmanly...
...life is an open one. It is true that loyalty and the pressing call of undergraduates often draw them back, and we shall ever be grateful beyond measure to them for coming back. But beyond the fact that this may interrupt the course of their business we do not think, judging from our own college past athletics that this difficulty of settling down to the serious work of life is so great, or that the interruption to their business is, in most cases, disastrous...
...they had a cheerfulness that came from feeling that God was on their side. After their exile they were scattered and as aliens were isolated and made to feel the strangeness of their situation. In some cases they were persecuted but not so much as we are apt to think. These persecutions were especially bitter about the second century...
Owing to our Renaissance sympathies, we commonly think of the early Germans only as barbarians and destroyers. The Germans, however, cannot have had this aspect to themselves. They rightly felt that their energies and powers were not altogether barbarous. We have seen how the infusion of their blood and their culture had a vivifying effect on those portions of the Roman Empire which came later to be the Romance nations. Modern life and modern literature are alike full of traces of the Germans, hence it is highly interesting to see how they developed at home, and unmixed with Latin blood...