Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lafayette's refusal to play her scheduled game with Harvard at Springfield today is a cause for righteous indignation to the manager of the eleven and to Harvard men generally. The affair is made doubly annoying at this late day when it is a matter of great difficulty or of impossibility to arrange games and when good practice games are especially important. As it was to Harvard's interest to play a match at the Springfield grounds, the Harvard manager had agreed to pay all of Lafayette's expenses. And Lafayette's conduct in backing out at this late...
...choir sang the following preces: "Where withal shall a young man cleanse his way," Hiles; "Beloved let us love one another," Stainer; "Then shall the righteous," Mendelssohn...
...Peabody's text was taken from the first part of the first and second chapters of St. Paul. Here is represented a well rounded character, sober, righteous and godly. Can such a character be made to barmonize with the present age? There are two ways in which a man can meet the corruption of the outside world. He can surrender and lose his strength of character, or he can flee from the times and become a recluse. Men who flee from the struggle in this way should certainly be respected as martyrs. But they have left the world behind them...
...account if they be only consecrated to the right. All the fortunate and seemingly unfortunate occurrences in our life are closely connected with those actions which we chose from the whole world to perform; and these occurrences are God's own. We belong to God, and thus all the righteous hopes may be ours, if we receive them from Him and cherish and consecrate them...
...accord" may be likened to what men find hampering in their environments. Men think they cannot be temperate, pure, or good because their associations tend to make them intemperate, vicious or bad. These environments are really very easy to break through. A strong faith in a righteous purpose will prevail very quickly over these imaginary difficulties...