Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...business matters were considered by the society, after which the president stated that the Church Students' Missionary Association had accepted the invitation of the society to hold its second annual convention in Cambridge next year. Rev. Percy Browne, of St. James Church, Roxbury, addressed the meeting in a few earnest words of exhortation for the purification of our souls. He showed the necessity of cultivating restraint against the many temptations which are attendant upon a college life; at the same time urging us to live an active life, not to wait for some better opportunity to do good...
...library at the same time. There is no reason why the lighting of the library should be made dependent upon outside circumstances for there is no immediate need of lighting the yard, and the law school library is lighted with gas. If the corporation wish to show themselves really earnest in the matter, let them begin at once with the college library and then proceed later with the rest their scheme...
...written for the annual senior class dinner. The oration, by Mr. Darling, glorifies the class of '89 for its share in the change of spirit and methods now taking place at Harvard. It also traces the work of the class in building up the various societies, closing with an earnest appeal for better work in athletics and predictions of a victorious season...
...examine the reasons for the slow progress the world has made since Christ's time in realizing the ideal of true Christianity. The chief trouble today is that there is an almost universal skepticism as to the possibility of perfect spirituality, of complete subjection to God's law. Earnest men may work an immense deal of good, but wonderful works are few because men doubt the power of Christ to regenerate the world from its very depths. The same slowness of growth in morality will last, the speaker said, until there comes a general acceptance of an idea of perfect...
...account of the unfavorable weather last evening, only a very small congregation was present at Appleton Chapel. The pulpit was occupied by Rev. William Lawrence, who, after reading the service, delivered a short but earnest address intended mainly for the students. He illustrated his remarks by a text from the 19th chapter of St. Luke, verses 39 and 40, in which Christ's triumphant march into Jerusalem amidst the rejoicing and glorification by his disciples is told. Truth, said the speaker, is bound to be spoken in some places or other, and it is our duty to find...