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...average product of the United States amounts to $200 a year to each mum, so that nine-tenths of the community must live, on the average, on less than that amount. Statistics show that the average man spends one-half of his income for food. Now if each man wastes five cents a day by bad methods of cooking, etc., the total waste for the United States in one year would amount to twelve million dollars, and the saving of this waste would mean the solving of the whole problem of shelter for the masses...
...would be so much easier for men to live good lives if they only opened their lives to these influences as completely as Nathaniel did. A man seems, without these influences, to be blind to the fact that by living an honest, temperate, straight-forward life he is not alone developing himself and becoming a better servant of Christ, but he is exerting an influence for good on all around him, the effects of which will be apparent to him all through his life. Dr. Brooks said that lives of this kind are, if possible, even more beautiful in their...
...should roll the stone away from the well of knowledge, he said, and give the world the benefit of it. Young men at Harvard, in my opinion the greatest University in this country, have exceptional advantages. They have it in their power by leading true Christian lives to do a great deal of good. But it is necessary to love Christ not to profess him. In this age it is not enough to argue with men who do not believe in Christ. We must set them the example, and there is no better way to show them...
...Christian often says "How can I live in the world and keep my faith?" My answer is "Be earnest in the faith you now have, and though it be slight, let it be strong...
...cite examples of college friends who have had every advantage of education and surroundings, and yet have gone to the bad? And should one expect better things of the Indian? Can a settlement of Indians be very vicious where it is perfectly safe for a single woman to live alone and teach, far away from white friends or acquaintances...