Word: prophetically
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...These words were spoken in a time when the kingdom of Judah, threatened with invasion from Babylon, was torn within itself by adverse theories, by doubt, by hesitation, by the impulse at one moment to follow any leader and at the next the cynical distrust of all. then the prophet came to the nation, halting as it were at crossroad, with his counsel to deliberate among the old ways and choose the one experience had pointed out as best...
Semitic Conference. The Prophet Elijah in History and Legend. Professor Toy. Sever...
Semitic Conference. The Prophet Elijah in History and Legend. Professor Toy. Sever...
...clearly a lapse of judgment. The subject of transcendentalism is also handied in a somewhat superficial manner. The spirit of Emerson is also missed, perhaps because of over-emphasis on the "Yankee" element in Emerson. Mr. John J. Chapman is, on the whole, a surer critic of the Concord prophet...
...said once, "I am vague, when I am definite, I am dull." When he came into the University the cry went up that the pulpit had lost its power. He quietly took his book, and convincingly proved that the pulpit would henceforth be a power. He was a prophet of idealism in the midst of a wave of materialism. At a time when Christianity was narrowly conceived he arose and made men thrill with a new power...