Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been, in one respect, unique. He founded no school of writers nor attended at any time supreme popularity, but his works have constantly increased in favor both among authors and among the reading public. To understand rightly the genius of Thackeray's writings, one must look at the world as the author himself looked at it, must understand his thoughts and know his life...
...influence and example of Jesus Christ has been the most potent factor of the world's history; it has inspired men, it has moulded destiny, and leavened the whole structure of society. The surest way in which men can add power to their lives it to shape them by the rules which Jesus laid down for His life, and the straightest road to influence among men for God follows the footsteps of Christ...
...acknowledge no higher strength, men of genius, who do not acknowledge the superior wisdom of God, do not lead men but repel them; only those who point, like the compass needle, unchangingly to a pole where lies all power and influence are those who direct and guide the world. Jesus Christ by a standard of right above and beyond himself was able to point men to ideals and attainment, higher than their own and was able to make them follow Him towards them...
Epochs in the world's history came and are gone, and through them all and shaping the eras that are ushered in, abides the influence of Jesus Christ, working through the lives of men. Those men will inspire and lead the world who, like Christ, live their lives by divine laws and for definite and exalted work...
...Victorian Age must be a mark in history. Yet it is not for this that we most honor the dead Queen, but from the witness of her life that "it is possible to live nobly, even in a palace." Because she was free from worldliness in the greatest of world-centres; because she held simple faith and love above all that the world could give, we forget the monarch we have lost, and remember only the woman and the friend...