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...Dancers of the Dawn, R. P. Utter...
...person who had sinned. When He sent His apostles out to conquer the world, He looked forward to victory, and yet just at this time His friends were few, while His enemies were constantly increasing in numbers. The night was upon Him but He looked forward to the dawn. It was this hopeful, confidant spirit which the early Christians received from Christ, a feeling that even in the midst of the most abject misery and depravity, if they only waited long enough the morning was sure to come...
...night even now, in the beginning of this new year is black upon us, but the dawn already lights the peaks of the eastern hills; there is more social spirit at work than ever before; more people are today occupied in helping their fellow beings than in any previous year. Men and women are now busily engaged by a desire to reach out and help those who are not so well off as themselves. Mechanical philanthropy is no longer of use. The new spirit of change is marked by the incessant efforts towards the reform of our politics which characterized...
...heaven above. A very prevalent belief was that of a migration of the dead, along a river or beyond a sea, usually to the East or West; for men of imaginative natures standing on the shore of the ocean could see in the brilliant clouds of sunset and dawn, the capes and headlands of a fair land beyond. These beliefs may well be seen in some ancient Irish literature and in Procopius's description of the spirits' voyage to Brittia...
Lecture. Egypt at the Dawn of History. Mrs. C. Stevenson. Peabody Museum...