Word: visioning
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...women who goes out from an American university today determined to live for financial gain or for personal fame, is one blind to the world's needs and deaf to the challenge of God. We are summoned to go out with a vision of a new world bright before our eyes that there is one who can make that new world possible, but that upon us rests a mighty responsibility to wage eternal warfare against those forces which are seeking to prevent the coming of that new world...
...this, regardless of its utility, has no place in an insititution of higher education. They think of the training as necessarily mechanical; they see no more advantage to be had from the School of Business Administration, here than from a common business school. What they forget is the comprehensive vision that is superimposed on the strictly practical groundwork. "Big Business", that overgrown bully of the modern world, will never be reformed until taken in hand by a few men with something better than personal motives. Only when theory is understood, as well as pratices and recognition made of the philosophy...
...noises of war some fortunate countries heard the voice of a master. With the British armies reduced to the most extreme danger from lack of shells. England, appalled at the vastness of the problem baulked at the undertaking till she found, in her recently rejected Premier a breadth of vision and a driving force to inspire her disunited industrialism and in turn her thousand cities into one munitions factory. And later, when the Allies, disappointed of victory, by every other expedient, turned to that of unified command, by the will of the gods, they found a commander. All this...
...provisions of the treaty and still nourishing the memory of age-long warfare with the South. Much depends on the Free State's policies. Radical interpretation of the constitution would cause a complete face-about in England's attitude and might permanently estrange Ulster. But a government of broad vision, using moderation and firmness in establishing law and order, can win the confidence and allegiance of the most irreconcilable skeptics...
...Allen chose a text as follows: "Where there is no vision the people perish; but he that keeneth the law, happy is he". To interpret his text he restated it. Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint; where there is no restraint the people perish". He stated as his belief that there was a breaking down of moral standards which could not be accounted for by the war or by the heterogeneity of the United States. "The only safeguard of any country", he stated, "is the respect of the people for law. We cannot expect a future...