Word: painful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Appleton Chapel was completely filled last night by those who took advantage of the fine evening to hear the Rev. Lyman Abbott preach. Dr. Abbott took as his text, Matthews ix.: 22. The central idea of his sermon was that there is no purification without pain. The Bible, he says, dwells upon the remission of sin, rather than of penalty. Christ was a suffering God, for suffering is not imperfection, but the climax of character. It is suffering that reconciles man to God, and good men and bad men can be brought together only by mutuality of pain. The message...
...eternal law that sin and suffering go together; if sin is kept, pain is kept, if the sin is gone, pain also must have gone. The gospel is not like an easy badge to be put on or off at will. Christ will not come unless he can cast out the devils and send away the swine...
...Institute grounds, Huntington Avenue, work has been begun for the Pompeiian Amphitheatre, to be erected for the especial use of Pain, the great London pyrotechnist, who intends giving a series of magnificent entertainments illustrating the Destruction of Pompeii...
...event was called. Ellis, M. I. T., and Walters, Harvard, '91, feather-weights, answered the call. In the first two rounds Ellis clearly had the best of it, coolly meeting Walters's rushes with his left. Towards the end of the second round Walters appeared to be in great pain, and at the beginning of the third it was announced that he had sprained his leg and would not appear. Ellis was given the bout. R. C. Williams, M. I. T., and C. R. L. Putnam, Harvard, '91, also feather-weights, next appeared. In the first round matters were very...
Life is like one great gymnasium where our various faculties are to be developed. However, more than athletes, we have enemies to confront, pain to bear, and burdens to lift. The soul is the one object which we own, and the rest is only secondary. The world exists that the divine company of human souls may rise and rise in strength. Those who subscribe to this view possess the best culture, and those who are true to this principal are cultured and none others. Culture is not in the possession of things mental and material, but the way in which...