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Since then it has been at the bat, at the oar, and with the ball, conducted by undergraduates, and has drawn larger audiences. The country does not yet understand that education develops both the body and the mind. No careful observer would take away any of the athletic characteristics of our colleges...
...found great generals and glorious achievements. The other allows the individual to lapse into the back-ground and applauds good works, deeds of charity and service. The way in which history has been written is largely responsible for the former view. We are, however, just beginning to understand the new Testament. More and more we are beginning to realize that the truly great men are the missionaries, the philanthropists, and the other servants of God. Christ came not to be ministered unto but to minister, and Paul, perhaps of all men most resembling Christ. Paul the great logician and scholar...
...Conduct of American Political Campaigns" and when the speaker, Hon. John E. Russell, stepped upon the platform, he was greeted with long and enthusiastic applause. Had the committee discussed the subject with me, said Mr. Russell, I should perhaps have changed it slightly. By America we now understand this grand federation of republics. Our talk of politics is everlastingly of the government. In reality we are governed by States. From the day of our birth through the whole course of life, the American is ruled by state laws. His schooling, marriage and divorce, are governed by the laws...
...defined clearly the parts of the subject which he thought within their grasp. They may study the outward form and more or less of the inward, cell structure of plants; the underlying idea, the vegetal morphology, may also be discovered by them. The child, however, cannot be expected to understand the classification of plants into families, their knowledge must be general, not specific...
...when Christ shall come and judge both the quick and the dead. Christ says that we should consider the spiritual resurrection, that we are dead spiritually, dead in sin. Christ has the power to raise from bodily and spiritual death. The only way Christ could make the multitude understand was by signs. The people whom Christ fed at Galilee came only for earthly bread. The people only saw the signs that Christ gave, and he said himself that they did not appreciate them - even his very disciples could not understand them. It is possible to have this life of Christ...