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...reason why nine-tenths of us should be alive; but the man who does good in the world, lifting up care and lightening the burdens of others, his life will not be wasted. There are doubtless many men in the college who thus seek the kingdom of God, but seek it second. For them there is in store a miserable life, a miserable death. In no other way can man fulfil his destiny but by seeking first the kingdom of God...
...present, when rapid changes are taking place in our conception of the truth, and God is constantly impressing us with new ideas of it, we should feel that the time of our visitation is come. It is a dreadful thing to see the failure of a young life. We can forgive the child who does not grasp his opportunities; but we can not pardon the youth, who, surrounded by loving teachers and with all possible advantages, yet fails at his first actual trial. He may have had his temptations, but they should have been incentives to virtue. His failure...
...proceed in something that at the outset looked simple enough, and sometimes we even forget our original purpose. In Lent most of us try a little more earnestly to improve ourselves, for example we try to break loose from some bad habit or to help others nearer to God. Towards the end of Lent, though, we usually find that we have not done so well as we hoped to. What we must do then, is to look to our original purpose and with God's help put in some earnest work before Easter. It is very well to say that...
Always loving, reliable, and true, Dr. Peabody lent a helping hand to hundreds of whom the world will never know. He lived for others and for God Himself; and surely there is no success like that with which his life was crowned...
...would have made the reputation of another man, is not that for which we hold him dear. His rare personality, his influence for untold good over two generations of men, this is the heritage he has left us. His life revealed the truth that the pure in heart see God. Behind the magnificent intellect, was the pure, gentle, tranquil heart which guided and utilized the intellect. He was one man whom we may call a college saint, and before him college men bowed, as it were, to worship...