Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...congregation in the right way, he must understand thoroughly such points as are likely to arise. It is sometimes said that ministers should not concern themselves with the laws of this world but should rather seek to teach the people the laws of the spirit. This is a very wrong point of view. The minister has always stood and will always stand as the head and guiding power of public opinion. Ministers are usually better educated than their congregations and must therefore place certain important questions before the people in the proper light. It is therefore most necessary that ministers...
...Therefore I hated life because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit." These two writers, he said, have views so opposed to one another that evidently one of them must have been very much in the wrong. And is it not so that viewed from certain standpoints there seems to be an element of truth in the words of the old preacher? Does it not sometimes look as if all this world was vanity and vexation of spirit? Is the reward of this world worth the price...
...develop this power of discernment is life's hardest task and the one upon which we must bestow our greatest care. Every familiarity with evil undermines our moral nature and strengthens the evil that is in us. On the other hand our associations with good break down the wrong and build up the right. God's aid alone is able to give us this ability to divide the good from the evil...
...will comprise a hundred or so of outsiders. They would enjoy noise, and would have nothing to lose by it. If Harvard men started to cheer, in all probability these outsiders would seize on the moment for extreme demonstrations, and then what of Harvard's reputation? If anything goes wrong, the general public will never discriminate between Harvard men and the outsiders; the whole blame will be thrown upon us. It is safest not to give an opportunity to noise-seekers...
...being separated to a great extent from the world, are always in danger of not accurately adapting students for activity. In old days, the university product was too often an overloaded and pedantic mind fed by a sickly body. The reaction came: the public declared that this was all wrong, that without health, knowledge was of little account. The needs of the body were made prominent, the student turned athlete, and now the university product is too often a heavy and powerful body feeding a diminutive mind...