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...Australian forests have a dull, sombre appearance, as if the verdure were covered with dust. In the district of Gippslon the graceful ferns grow luxuriantly in picturesque forms and the trees reach a great height. Views were exhibited of the hot springs of New Zealand and of vegetation before and after the eruption, which covered the mountain districts with cinders, showing the complete destruction of all plant life. The lecture closed with a number of pictures of Japan, disclosing the effects of the disastrous earthquakes last fall...
...True Christianity is humane, social and friendly, and the true church is the church most full of God, consequently nearest man. (2) As the test of our life work. (3) As the test of what Christ would make of us. The jewel that drops from its setting into the dust can not of itself return to its place, and unless returned must lie degraded; the violin that hangs on your wall can not when once out of tune give forth strains of harmony till you tune it again. This is what Christ would do for us all; will...
Mona Caird writes of the "Emancipation of Family" in a sort of big bowwow style, resulting in very little of worth to the question. "Criminal Politics," by the editor of the Evening Post, is daringly outspoken-a broom to raise much dust. The Tariff Discussion is continued by Major McKinley, and Felix L. Oswald is among the contributors to the "Notes and Comments...
...practice of giving trophies, whenever the finances permit, to members of championship-winning teams is established, it will, I think, be an additional incentive to good work to our athletes-small, to be sure-but still we ought to do everything now to raise Harvard Athletics from the dust where they...
...cleared himself by this lightly written phrase. In truth he has played the part of a mole. Without a glance at the fair structure which Harvard men have built in their prosperity, he has dug his way into a heap of the veriest rubbish and then blinded by the dust in his eyes, he has yielded to his distorted imagination and has called his work an accurate description of what he has found. Were every statement he has seen fit to make a complete truth-we deny this with all the energy we can sum-mon-nevertheless, the disquisition would...