Word: astounding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mistakes and excesses, yet the effect has always been, as a whole, good. They have remained as that which was permanent in the old Jewish system of theology and in the Christian church. In fact, Christ's life is but a monstrous, aspiring dream, which for centuries has astounded and will continue to astound men. The dreams are what to the lower nature seem unreal, - but the things which are seen are temporal and the things which are unseen are permanent. As to nations, so to individuals, visions arise of duty, of nobleness. And although such a vision will often...