Dedication of Antioch College, and Inaugural Address of Its President, Hon Horace Mann: With Other ProceedingsScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1854 - 136 pages |
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Page 55 - Let not sin therefore, reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof; neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin ; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Page 54 - If then a painful sense comes on Of something wholly lost and gone, Vainly enjoyed or vainly done ; Of something from your being's chain Broke off, nor to be linked again By all mere memory can retain, Upon your heart this truth may rise : Nothing that altogether dies, Suffices man's just destinies.
Page 44 - If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Page 126 - ... rejuvenant amid the frosts of age. A mind as strong for the immortal as is the body for the mortal life ; alike enlightened by the wisdom and beaconed by the errors of the past; through intelligence of the laws of Nature, guiding her elemental forces, as it directs the limbs of its own body through the nerves of motion, thus making alliance with the exhaustless forces of Nature for its strength and clothing itself with her endless charms for its beauty, and, wherever it goes, carrying a sun in...
Page 13 - Western world is gigantic youth, and therefore its education must be such as befits a giant. It is born to such power as no heir to an earthly throne ever inherited, and it must be trained to make that power a blessing and not a curse to mankind. With its mighty frame stretching from the Alleghanies to the Rocky Mountains, and with great rivers for arteries to circulate its blood, it must have a sensorium in...
Page 12 - This youthful Western world is a gigantic youth, and therefore its education must be such as befits a giant. It is born to such power as no heir to an earthly throne ever inherited, and it must be trained to make that power a blessing and not a curse to mankind.—Life and Works, Vol.
Page 55 - ALTHOUGH the Law of God contains a perfect rule of conduct admirably arranged, it has seemed proper to our divine Master to train his people by a more accurate method, to the rule which is enjoined in the Law ; and the leading principle in the method is, that it is the duty of believers to present their " bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is their reasonable service,
Page 41 - No cholera infantum, scarlet fever or small-pox; no, not even tooth-ache. So extraordinary a thing was it for a son to die before his father that an instance of it is deemed worthy of special notice, and this first case of the reversal of nature's law was two thousand years after the creation of Adam. See how this reversal of nature's law...
Page 78 - ... instead of striking the fetters of prohibition from one in a hundred thousand, or from one in ten thousand, those fetters are stricken from all, and incitements to exertion and aids to self-development are supplied to all ; then, immediately, quick as water gushes from unsealed fountains, Shermans rise up from the shoemaker's bench, Beechers come from the blacksmith's anvil, and Bowditches and Franklins from the ship-chandler's and the tallow-chandler's shop, and a new galaxy shines forth over...
Page 40 - And yet over all that expanse of time — for more than one-third part of the duration of the human race — not a single instance is recorded of a child born blind, or deaf, or dumb, or idiotic, or malformed in any way ! During the whole period not a single case of a natural death in infancy, or childhood, or early manhood, or even of middle manhood, is to be found.