Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...illustration will long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing the light. With no match his only resource was to stand by the track and as the train thundered past, cast the broken lantern into...
Bursts such a light that trembling souls inquire
First, then, it is hard to realize, although history clearly tells of it, how definite, and limited, and special, was the foundation of Harvard College. It lay like a weird ball of light in the intention of its founders. It had no relations with any region of human life except its own. To make ministers of a certain faith and of a certain order, that faith conceived of as the final expression of the truth of God; that order accepted as the appointed means for men's salvation to create certain types of experience, to protect an acknowledged system...
...supernatural shall disappear and the slavery and degradation of pure secularism shall be complete, until at last religion and the mystery of life shall be forever dissipated, and the thin, hard and colorless relic which is left shall be staring upon us in the glare of the electric light which men choose to call by the great name of science. Either of these ways of looking at it all is possible. But there is yet another and a higher possibility. There may be in all this progress of enlargement which we have traced, a richer and more gracious meaning...
...conviction in too much of our university history. In the multitude of our police regulations, in the thoroughly economical view of conduct which a great community begets, we feel too rarely the grand inspiration of righteousness as opening the way to truth; of character as the medium by which light can flow. "Blessed are the pure in thought for they shall see God." Are those words too lofty - too transcendant, to write on the new portal of the college yard? Would they be but a mockery of the baser thoughts of life, the lower ideas of learning which the wood...