Word: creator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was the usual large attendance at Vespers yesterday afternoon. The service was conducted by Rev. George A. Gordon, assisted by Dr. F. G. Peabody. Mr. Gordon spoke briefly from the text,- "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth." To get a vivid idea of God and of our duty toward Him, we must keep him in our hearts from our youth up. The days of childhood are days of impressions. As we grow older our perceptions become duller, and our lives are less easily molded. Wax must be stamped when it is warm. Whenever a man raises...
Prof. Trelease closed his lecture by saying that however the subject of botany was considered, either as the result of a direct order of the Creator, or that of slow growth and self development, it was worthy of the greatest attention and study of mankind...
...race, left alone, tends downward. An old proverb says, "The majority are evil." Indeed it is a sad spectacle - the world tending to degradation. The history of the world is a record of degradations and deliverances. The world has fallen and there have come great heroes, agents of the Creator, to raise it again. The hope of the world has been in the rarer souls, whether in literature, art, science, philosophy, or religion; men who, by the force of their own convictions, have stirred all mankind. Such men were Homer, Thales, Galileo and Watt. A score of names sums...
...distress from one of them calls hundreds of others to his assistance. The highest development of sympathy is seen in the monkey. Then comes the lower man. From them to the higher man the development is marvelous, introducing paternal love, love of the tribe, love of the Creator, (which in the lower men is only fear), universal sympathy with mankind, and in the last century sympathy with animals and love for nature...
...late President Rogers the Boston Transcript says : "The hundreds of men, young and old, on whom his influence bore, think of him gratefully and affectionately. All testimony is alike as to the power of his personality. He was the creator of the Institute of Technology, the inspirer of its teachers and pupils. His direct influence through contact has been very great. At present probably less than ten per cent, of the intellectual leaders of the United States have reached the moral turning-point which President Rogers long ago passed...