Word: trust
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most universal prayer of mankind; it includes everything that can be asked for from God. It confesses the imperfection of the human being, of human institutions. It acknowledges the prevalence of weakness, sin and despair in the human heart. At the same time it expresses an unfaltering trust in the goodness and justice of God. It even expresses a belief that in the end the kingdom of the Lord will put an end to the sin and misery of the human race. Every good thing done, every improvement in the arts, laws and customs of society, helps to bring about...
...wealth of spiritual resources that is awaiting the bidding of every Christian. It is a dull life that looks forward to mere resistance, thinking that if it is not wholly conquered by temptation it has done well; the true Christian puts all his forces at work to trust God for support, and then the temptations lose the battle as completely as did the Syrian host...
...hand a membership ticket entitles the possessor to admittance to all the athletic meetings while he is in the university, and always afterward for that matter. We have detailed the privileges of a member of the Athletic association mainly for the benefit of the men in Ninety-three. We trust that in becoming members they will be influenced as much by allegiance to college, of which we first spoke, as by purely personal considerations...