Word: vital
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hence it is of vital importance that the party organization should be pure...
...associating himself with views that are not strictly religious, for he certainly cannot be more of a christian in so doing than he is in his determination to live a noble life. If a man says he will walk in the good path, God too says he will. The vital question is: Do you want to be better than you are? God says...
...love toward him still abides with us. It was certainly a remarkable twenty years that he passed here as college preacher, years so full of lofty unselfishness and profound thought, of eager assistance and inspiring suggestion to the students that reverence for Dr. Peabody came to be a vital part of all Harvard thought...
...said Dr. Donald, that the better men in the university showed themselves strong it was no more than a promise that the inferior men would not show themselves weak. Without dispute, there has ever seemed a connection, more or less vital' between an increase in luxury and a decline in manly strength. What is the reason? If men take the beauty and comfort that are about them an use them to develope themselves, to increase their taste and their refinement, certainly this will not mean a poorer grade of men. However men fail to recognize that they have any responsibility...
...early church, he said, owed its splendid organization, its magnificent hierarchy to Rome; but all that was permanently vital and formative came from Greece. When Christianity was still young, the strong literary spirit of the Greeks had a decided effect on it. Thus their elegant rhetoric soon put an end to the spontaneous prophesying which was common in the first days of the church, and made way for the preaching of modern times. It used to be thought that the Christian church was an entirely new phenomenon; but this is far from true. It is only unique in its idea...