Word: humanation
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...North Sea Watch is strikingly picturesque. A thousand spiritual expressions of shore, sea and sky enter it as well as the cry of human sorrow. It might have been written by a landscape painter, had any such the refined sentiment and deep feeling united with musical expression that Mr. Woodberry has. The North Shore Watch is a threnody for the young friend who died in '78, to whom the book is dedicated. All through the lament the final alexandrines surge and moan like the rhythmic ninth wave that beats upon every shore...
...phrase of life was pictured in Homer from whom as Ovid says, "As from a spring perennial the lips of bards are moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great and noble men without a knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey. "A beautiful mirror of human life at its best," says some one of the Odyssey, and surely no better epithet can be applied to the great author than that which Hallam applied to Shakespeare, "thousand-souled," the thousand-souled Homer...
...sermon last night on a text from Matthew vi: 10-"Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." This is the most universal prayer of mankind; it includes everything that can be asked for from God. It confesses the imperfection of the human being, of human institutions. It acknowledges the prevalence of weakness, sin and despair in the human heart. At the same time it expresses an unfaltering trust in the goodness and justice of God. It even expresses a belief that in the end the kingdom of the Lord will...
...this passage is a warning to all that are at ease, and say "I need nothing." We must always seek something greater and fuller, always stive for nobler things, and finally, when we have come to deserve God, He will come to us. We should find some task which human powers have failed to do, and which can only be done by divine power, and then by setting to work upon it we shall receive help from...
...Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky, chose last night the text, "My peace I give unto you." It was the Lord Jesus who said this, at the last supper with the disciples. What was this peace that Jesus had? Where did he get it? Was he exempt from human suffering? No. Was he indifferent to the opinion of mankind? No Did he have the enthusiasm of the fanatic? Such a man would not have been silent. Suffering the acutest agony a human being can endure, having before him the shame of a felon's death, unsupported by any blind enthusiasm...