Word: fearing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...hindsight avails, the Southerners in 1850 could not have seen any threat to their civilization from specific material interests in the North. It was the North's moral awakening and not its industrial alertness, its free thought and not its free labor which the Southern planters had to fear. We can not, however, see what actually happened unless we go inside of the Southern civilization, observe the forces that threatened it, and humanly understand what purposes and impulses governed the Southerners themselves while they were fighting these as well as the enemies from without. Among the Southern people themselves there...
...agitation against the societies was begun through a fear that the system imperilled Yale democracy and because the societies encouraged politics in college matters...
President Eliot accepted the boat house in behalf of the University. He said that the development of the body is necessary to the cultivation of a sound mind, and that rowing is a great means to such development. However, he expressed the fear that rowing is not today as pure a pleasure as it should be, and as it was when he rowed on the crew. It is to be hoped that rowing will be further fostered in the near future by the construction of a dam at Craigie Bridge, which would keep the river at high water mark...
...microscopic rules for its daily regulation. He has taught us to face money in the strength of a great principle, and not in the pettiness of a mere rule. And so, wealth, whether you possess it or desire it is yours to desire, to employ, to enjoy in His fear and as His stewards. You may well thank God that other men have lived who have accumulated wealth, but better still, have, both living and dying, with princely hand dispensed...
...word "fear" is in this case rather ambiguous. It is not a degrading terror, but rather an uplifting awe. It should instill in us admiration, not envy or hatred; and our constant effort should be imitation of the Revered Being. In the low forms of religion, the fear is abject, hopeless; and it is only with the help of Christian love that we can avoid this and realize that we are in a measure akin to God, however many feelings we may have...