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...hundred young men who had assembled in Northfield last summer pledged themselves to engage in mission work in foreign countries-how these young men went to the various colleges throughout the country and secured promises from many young men to become missionaries to foreign countries if they should live. Mr. Speer urged upon his fellow students the necessity of those who could to engage in missionary work for there is vast room for such work. All through the Soudan, through, the valley of the Congo, throughout central Africa, the natives live and die in ignorance of the true life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Speer's Lecture. | 3/28/1890 | See Source »

...nothing short of downright selfishness in any man who day after day asks this favor. In case one preserves the notes in all his courses in one binder, it is very troublesome to lend his notes in any particular course; yet there are men in college who fairly live off their more industrious or faithful class mates in just this way. It is hoped that such will abandon the practice at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 3/26/1890 | See Source »

...Life and immortality. Every great religion has asserted that the arrival of man marked the final and highest stage of creation. In fact, the promise of immortality held out by every creed depends directly upon this assumption; for unless man is of more importance than all other living creatures we have no reason for believing that he alone is destined to eternal life. The speaker then showed that there is imminent in the universe an infinite, immaterial Spirit. This Spirit, acting through evolution, has produced all creatures living upon this earth and last of all created mankind, a race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. | 3/11/1890 | See Source »

Judge Smith then spoke of "Utopia," in which no lawyers were to live; of Bellamy who said in his "Looking Backwards" that in the 20th century no lawyers would live in Boston; of the Knights of Labor, by whose by-laws "liquor sellers, bankers, gamblers and lawyers" are barred from membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference. | 2/26/1890 | See Source »

...which I would not, that I do" No sine are really small, but on the contrary are perilous and unhappy. Some sins come to us from a bad heart and thus leave us in a condition more susceptible to sin than before. Thus it is that there are two lives open to us. We must either live in sprit by loving God or live in the flesh, a selfish existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vespers. | 2/21/1890 | See Source »