Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third class includes a great many of us, those who are both good and bad. If our hearts were unalterably fixed for good or bad we should have no need to think of our ways; but as they are not we need to take an inventory of our stock and find out just where we stand. What season so fit as the present...
...Christ's character is a one sided - one. In consequence they feel a condict between their religion and every-day life. They really long to be like the strongest men-of-the-world and to excel in vigor and energy, and they pray to be like one whom they think of as all gentleness. This state of things is palpably wrong, but it results merely from a mistake. The whole remedy lies simply in realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic power could have started the viorations...
...character will be plainly seen. There is no reason for discouragement because we seem to move slowly even with the hardest and truest work. Every good thing that comes may be depended upon absolutely to give some of its own beauty to the soul it touches. And if we think as little as possible about their influence but give our energy to keeping these noble men and things always before us we shall come to be more and more like them as surely as there is a law of canse and effect...
...thing that is very helpful in perseverance is to live day by day, to look into the future and to think how long we have got to work, but to do each day's work as best we can and to let the future take care of itself...
...practically the same facilities for making money. The plain logic of the figures quoted seems to be, therefore, that the glee club ought to give a great deal more to the crew than it does. And this furnishes us with the occasion for saying some things which we think should be said before the Christmas trip of the club...