Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these days, said Dr. Hyde, we cannot conquer evil by epicurianism or by stoic unconsciousness. Mere animals, it is true, are innocent of moral evil, and so are those who seek to destroy evil by animalism. Many have written foolish novels trying to prove this, Walt Whitman being among those who have done...
Blue Hill, on the south coast, overlooks this territory around Boston, whose beauties every student ought to seek, and in visiting which his spare time can be most profitably spent...
...text is the first verse of the first chapter of Isaiah: 'Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord. Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn...
...prophet was trying to arouse the people to higher ambitions and a nobler life. He had reasoned with them, had spurred them with a fear of God's judgments, had fired them with a glimpse of the future and of the promises to those that seek the Lord. And then, in the text, he struck their sense of honor and loyalty by an appeal to the past. Their history though checquered had been an honorable one; their father, Abraham, had in the spirit of faith migrated to the west and settled in a new country. From small beginnings they...
...happy memories of Harvard in the background, your thoughts will be intent on the future. I might try to strike the several notes of the prophet: I could tell you from the lives of some of my own college mates of how God's judgments fall upon those that seek unrighteousness, - the sermon caught from a few unhappy and cursed lives would speak stronger words than any prophetic warnings. You would respond with eagerness to an appeal to the future and to the rewards that come to them that seek the right. But my sole appeal today...