Word: killing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spirits. There is a class of "medicine men" who devote their lives to propitiating these evil spirits, and who think to increase their power by eating human corpses Slavery in its worst forms is prevalent all over the country. The masters have entire control over their slaves and often kill a dozen or more as a mere display of wealth. The condition of the women is so wretched that babies are often killed rather than allowed to grow up to misery...
...people are shown by two experiences. The first is that of Mr. Duncan, an English missionary, who landed at Alaska thirty-five years ago. His efforts to spread the gospel were received enthusiastically by the people, and he soon gained so much power that the "medicine men" tried to kill him, and he withdrew to settle in a new place with his followers. The dwellers in the new village were placed under strict pledges to abstain from idleness and vice, and a model town soon grew up. Another proof of capabilities of the natives is the success of the schools...
CLASS OF '88.- The class will meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon on Jarvis Field, to support the class nine and kill the umpire, if necessary. Per order...
...opened the debate for the affirmative. He reviewed all the proceedings of the anarchists in Chicago until they culminated in the fatal catastrophe of last May, for which seven men are now held responsible. He showed that arms had been furnished to various organizations of workingmen with orders to kill the capitalists, and then quoted from one of their speeches: "If you would no longer be slaves, you must kill, you must throttle, you must stab!" This kind of doctrine certainly passed the limits of free speech, which the anarchists claim was their right, and one which they could make...
...then briefly on the moral side of religion. A man can never get rid of temptation. Kill the temptation or it will kill you. In the first place, temptation is no sin, Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is not. Secondly, temptation is invaluable, no man can be a man unless he is tempted and that often. Practice makes a man a good Christian. Make temptation a continual means of grace, and you are on the right road. Religion consists in living. Who is going to begin this life? Consider...