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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their dues. Such action on the part of these clubs is nothing less than a shameful breach of faith Having given their promise to support the organization, and having ordered their treasurer to make certain expenditures the clubs are bound by all the rules of honor to keep their word, and pay their obligations...
...question is not who wrote these books nor when they were written nor whether the authors were inspired but are the promises true, in a word are the promises God's, and not merely those of an old Hebrew preacher? Of the many reasons for believing these promises true I shall tonight consider but one, the fact that today those very promises are being fulfilled. I turn to one of these promises. "And God said let us make man in our image after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl...
Christianity is pre-eminently a religion of the future, a religion of hope. It is said that on all the beautiful columns of the Greeks the word hope was never seen, while the walls of the dark and gloomy catacombs were radiant with promise...
...verse of the number, one cannot say with Plutarch, that it is "written in fire." Nevertheless, both "Dawn" and the "Villanelle" are more than mediocre. One or two lines of the former are good, although in consideration of the innumerable word-harmonies of which "Dawn" has been the theme, it is not strange if one notes the lack of a single original strain in the song. The "Villanelle" is correct in form and in a certain brightness of fancy reminds one of Herrick. As a villanelle it is praise-worthy...
...novel undertaking in the line of reference books is a year book of the Universities of the word, entitled "Minerva," shortly to appear from the press of Karl Trubner in Strassburg. It will give the personnel of the boards of management and instruction in all the leading universities in the world. The whole number represented...