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Year after year Harvard has gone to Springfield confident of success. The papers have sounded a note of triumph and the freshmen have put up all their money; and year by year-with one glorious exception-we have come back beaten. But we have not been utterly cast down. Oh no,- "If A. hadn't fumbled the ball on the five yard line, or if B. hadn't slipped just as he had a clear field, or if C. had only got by that Eli fullback, we'd have had 'em on the run. As it is they deserve lots...
...stand to the University as its last and, we trust, its richest fruit. Here you have dreamed dreams and seen visions. For the most glorious of those dreams and the loveliest of these visions you will be held responsible. If you should fail of your highest purposes in life, you will not be able to fall back upon the excuse that the highest ideals have not been given, for they are yours now. What you will do with them remains for you to answer...
...glorious thing to lay hold of the good things in this world but they are all in vain if the spirit does not respond to the higher call and lay hold of the good things which are to last through all the everlasting ages...
...chapters 24-27, there are many problems and obscure allusions, but the conception reached is a still higher one. Israel is regarded no longer as a guilty nation, but as a righteous one under oppression. The prophet describes the removal of the veil of death and sorrow and the glorious entry of every race into a new creation. In a subsequent chapter the abolition of death is suggested and in another prayer is made for the resurrection of the dead. A similarity of ethical conceptions suggests the possibility of Persian influence at this period of Hebrew thought. The Persian supremacy...
Christ was sent into the world, said Mr. Byrd, to bear witness before men of his father. This same glorious commission has been given by Christ to us, - to share with him. Surely then this work should stand first, above all else, in the heart of every Christian. It rests upon all the members of the Christian church to see that the gospel is carried into every part of the world. It rests especially with students, who have had unusual advantages in education, to preach the word of God to a heathen world, and to show by noble lives...