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...love which comes from obedience. We need not wait to know what Christ has for us to do before we show ourselves ready to obey. Many knew by experience that unquestioning obedience was right. We know what the name Christ means; we know what He was on earth and what His standard is. We can trust Him, simply because He is Jesus. We must become children again, not rebellions, not defiant, not meagre; but simple and devoted. When we hear His voice, there can never be any doubt as to what He wants of us. If we listen and obey...
...vases to the "Cypria," one of the lost epics which supplemented the Homeric poems. We know this poem through quotations which we find in various authors, and by its influence on Greek art and literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark of the Greeks. This marriage was one of the episodes which particularly attracted the vase-painters...
...authorities at the Russian observatory of Pulkova in ascertaining the precise time when certain faint stars were occulted by the moon. These stars, usually invisible when in the neighborhood of the moon, on account of the brilliancy of its light, became visible by reason of the shadow of the earth falling on the moon, the light of which was thereby diminished. So that by determining the time of the occultation of these stars, whose positions are exactly known, the moon's position was ascertained more accurately than it has been heretofore. In addition to this work in co-operation with...
Another of Prof. N. S. Shaler's notable articles on the surface of the earth will appear in Scribner's Magazine for February, under the title of "Volcanoes." Among the illustrations will be a number of views of the great eruption in the Sandwich Islands...
...There is this difference," continued Mr. Depew, "between these two greatest and most beneficent governments earth-that of the United States and that of the University of Yale-one does not know how to handle a surplus in the treasury and the other is showing marvelous ability with a deficiency. Not that Yale is in debt or running behind, but her resources and income are unequal to her superb preparation for expansion and her great opportunities. I have no hesitation in saying, from a personal examination of the subject, that if the liberal wealth which is so freely bestowed when...