Dec 21, 2023
It is not the friends of our election who have exclusive claims
upon us; the friends brought to us here and there by the
circumstances of life all claim our loyalty, and from these we
get…kindness for kindness, service for service, loyalty for
loyalty, full measure, heaped together and running over.
Dec 7, 2023
Our flesh the Word became, and dwelt with us,
And we beheld His glory, as, of God,
The only-begotten Son: we who believed
Knew glory when we saw it, by the signs—
Not of the pomp and majesty of Kings—
But Grace, the touch of God, showed sweet in Him;
And Truth, discerning all things, made Him simple,
His glory saw...
Nov 23, 2023
Education is a life. That life is sustained on ideas. Ideas are
of spiritual origin, and God has made us so that we get them
chiefly as we convey them to one another, whether by word of mouth,
written page, Scripture word, musical symphony; but we must sustain
a child’s inner life with ideas as we sustain his body...
Nov 9, 2023
Mentally he must be developed so that as he grows older he may
have the capacity to grasp the true meaning of social and political
questions of the day. His mind should be so trained that he will be
able to detect and reject fallacious statements, and quick to
discover the claptrap of which our newspapers are so...
Oct 19, 2023
We take strong ground when we appeal to the beauty and truth of
Mathematics; that, as Ruskin points out, two and two make four and
cannot conceivably make five, is an inevitable law. It is a great
thing to be brought into the presence of a law, of a whole system
of laws, that exist without our concurrence,––that...