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...present reviewer does not think quite so badly of the contents of the present issue as his zeal for helping the Monthly has led him to appear to think; yet he confesses he has seldom read a duller number of the Advocate...
...alphabet, yet which was consisitently a law unto itself and as legible as other current script when its letters were once learned; and in his vivid perception of the rich variety of the world about him, in which like an impressionist he saw bright colors unseen by duller eyes. He was the friend and advocate of the students in his charge rather than a prosecuting officer of the University, and it was always more his wish to get young fellows out of scrapes than to punish them for getting in. He was the inventor and developer of the three double...
...faith," is not always helpful. As a help to your faith, suppose the preacher is so powerful and so eloquent that you leave the church absolutely faithless. Ask yourself if the world outside does not seem infinitely narrower, vastly changed; if the atmosphere is not heavier, and the clouds duller. Ask if you do not feel a lack in your heart which used to lend a certain elasticity to life which is now gone. If all this seems true then you may know that you have faith. Jesus said if you have faith "even as a grain of mustard seed...
...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 an ideal late in life, he always regrets the possibility of achievement which might have been his, had he awakened sooner. If we begin early to follow the example of Christ...
...whether it is worth while to make animals suffer for the benefit of all mankind. Dr. Bowditch proved that it is. There is no moral objection, because we often expose those we love to some pain that they may gain from the results obtained. Why should animals so much duller be spared? We use animals for all other purposes, for food and clothing, and even for enjoyment and sport. The physiologist is certainly not so cruel as the sportsman. He takes every precaution to kill his victim with the least pain. Indeed, so painless are his methods that the death...