Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be at the chapel next Sunday. The sermon was given by Dr. A. McKenzie. The text was taken from the Revelations III-8 "Behold, I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it." In the course of his remarks Dr. McKenzie said, "The truth which these words express could be taken from any book of the Bible and merely means that the power of God is stronger than that of man. Christ, the Son of God, did not drag men into His train, but said, 'Come ye, if ye will.' The one thing...
...abolition of the compulsory system here was hailed by the faculty and students alike as a step toward true worship. It was a recognition of the truth that observance of mere forms is meaningless. Whoever attends chapel now, attends it with the true religious spirit and whatever faith a man may profess, whether he be Protestant, Romanist or Jew, he must recognize that the same motive acts upon the man who is to him a heretic, as upon himself, a desire to worship the Deity. Consequently every one, unless he be a veritable pessimist, must rejoice at the success which...
...returns from the various colleges of this country show an astonishing increase in the size of the incoming classes. This fact awakens in everyone the realization of the truth that during the past few years the strides made in all the departments of science and literature have been very great, but in no direction has this advance become more manifest than in the progress of learning at the different colleges. The faculties have adopted broader principles, giving the students a larger scope in the selection of studies, and the number of courses in the different schools have been constantly enlarged...
...Assommoir", sickening subject. The description of the book does it justice. The criticism of it is not quite fair to M. Zola. The French idea of art has been ably expressed and developed by M. Taine, and may be summarized in the words, "Art" is the emphazing one truth out of many, or one feature or manifestations of a complex truth", and M. Zola himself has justified his method. They are, he says, necessary to his purpose, which is the discovery of truth, and that canst and alone. Greek statues would be indecent if at all clothed. Their nudity, however...
...seldom ends in a draw), the English cricketers were asked their opinion of the play, and were obliged to admit that so far as they could judge the batting seemed very weak. "That is a compliment at any rate to the pitchers," they were told. "But to say the truth," one of them replied, "the bowling - or what you call 'pitching' - seemed weak too. Every ball was full pitched, and any one can hit a full-pitched ball; yet your fellows often missed them." A smile passed round among the base-ball players and their friends...