Word: godding
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...choice that rested upon them; to remember that only one type of life can survive, and that, the highest type of all life. Work, and that only, will end in becoming a torture; pleasure, and that only, will finally sicken; the study of men and the knowledge of God which it brings is the only thing fit to occupy a man's life...
...does not understand the spiritual life and truth, and for this reason does not care for religion. Christ lived for all men and not for the Jews alone, and they denied Christ for the very reason that he would not confine himself to them alone. In the same way God is always seeking and claiming us all, and calls us his own. The fruits of the spirit are manifest in those men who have nothing to do with the church and are in no way connected with it. However, in these same men is found lacking that uniformity and spiritual...
Whereas it has pleased God in his infinite wisdom to remove from us our classmate, Oliver Whyte...
When the children of Israel were asked whether they would serve God or Baal he let them choose of their own accord and when they choose idolatry he punished them by thrusting their forty year's wandering upon them. And so with us; if we are given our choice between good and evil and accept the evil, we cannot expect other than our deserved punishment...
...condition to obtain character is to say that you will have it. A man may not believe in Church, or in God or have any religious views, nevertheless, if he says: "I'll be a man," and strives for manly character, he most certainly will get it. Such a man cannot be upbraided for not associating himself with views that are not strictly religious, for he certainly cannot be more of a christian in so doing than he is in his determination to live a noble life. If a man says he will walk in the good path, God...