Word: offing
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One of the most forcible lessons of the Bible is in the sudden change of Paul's life after the vision which came to him during his journey to Damascus. From this moment he worked with a hope and purpose as noble as his former life had been bad.
With the purpose of exhibiting clearly the permanent and essential characteristics of both the great parties he reviews the life of the Republican party through the periods of the territorial issue, secession, reconstruction, and subsidence to sectionalism, down to the present, "when two swift changes of issues apparently revolutionized our...
Chapel services were conducted last night by the Rt. Rev. W. N. McVickar, D. D., of Providence, who spoke from the text: "But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things...
What was true in Paul's case is true in that of every man. There is no life, however evil in outward aspect that has not some thread of purpose running through it, and it is our duty to accept this as Paul accepted the vision, and to crystallize it...
No one can say truly that he has never been offered a share in this inter-course. All of us have had some opportunity, some flash of Paul's vision, but too often we have let it slip past. And with every such opportunity lost, our natures become more callous...