Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Temptation is common to man, persistent but conquerable. The secret of overcoming it may be found in these six rules: Resist promptly, and get out of its presence. Make the battle a positive as well as a negative one. Be preoccupied. Be vigilant. Be forearmed. Watch and pray...
...with the result that he gets tangled up with his opponent too often. He has, however, shown much improvement since the beginning of the season. Pierce, right tackle, is rather light for the place, and is too easily turned aside. He has not learned how to resist force coming at him from an angle, now properly to help out his guard...
...there is present in every soul a serious purpose, we can see further that it must be God's purpose and God's will that we are fulfilling by our labor. Many of us, to be sure, are afraid to admit this close relationship between God and man; we resist his will and try to act independently. Surely we do this in ignorance and blindness; for what more pitiable fate could man have than to be, as it were, an orphan, cut off from all intercourse with...