Memoir of Daniel Appleton WhiteInstitute, 1864 - 47 páginas |
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Página 47 - MY God, I thank Thee ! may no thought E'er deem Thy chastisements severe ; But may this heart, by sorrow taught, Calm each wild wish, each idle fear.
Página 36 - The truth revealed through Christ has its evidence in itself, and the proof of its divine authority in its fitness to our nature and needs ; the clearness and cogency of this proof being proportionate to the degree of self-knowledge in each individual hearer.
Página 29 - Institution interested him most deeply, because it was based upon the following broad principle, which entirely commended itself alike to his judgment and his heart. "It being understood, that every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial and unbiassed investigation of Christian truth; and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians be required of the students, or professors, or instructors." He retained the same paternal interest in the School to the end of life...
Página 36 - Christianity has likewise its historical evidences, and these as strong as is compatible with the nature of history, and with the aims and objects of a religious dispensation. And to all these Christianity itself, as an existing power in the world, and Christendom as an existing fact, with the no less evident fact of a progressive expansion, give a force of moral demonstration that almost supersedes particular testimony.
Página 36 - I am now contending — namely, that it is the spirit of the Bible, and not the detached words and sentences, that is infallible and absolute?
Página 28 - While he delighted in every advance in the scholarship of the College, it was his cardinal principle that moral training should hold the sovereign place in all educational plans ; and he never permitted an opportunity to be lost, when he could press its paramount claims. It is proper to say that the College did not forget the claim of so loyal and distinguished a son to her honors, and conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws, in 1837. The Divinity School at Cambridge was another object of...
Página 27 - No. 2. CONNECTION WITH PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. Though Judge White lived for many years in comparative retirement, neither the charm of books, nor of social intercourse, absorbed his thought. He retired from all strife for the prizes of the world, but he never remitted his labors for its welfare. No man was more alive to the highest interests of the Community, the Commonwealth, and the Country ; and he exerted an active public influence even to his last days, by his connection with Literary and Charitable...
Página 12 - ... of the Hasty Pudding Club, of which he was one of the founders, but was prevented from giving it, in consequence of his being at Andover at that time, engaged in teaching school. He was therefore reappointed to give an Anniversary oration before the Club, in the following September. He was the first of his class elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was also chosen to prepare an English oration for the Class Day. Previously to that time, the usual performances had been a Latin Oration...
Página 44 - ... one, and which naturally results from reflection and wisdom in the earlier periods of life." He had himself secured the reflection, and gained the wisdom, to make his own old age green. The tree was planted by the living springs, and the freshness of its leaf did not fade. By a steadfast observance of the laws of health he regained the vigor which had been almost sacrificed by excessive study in youth, and his step was elastic and firm almost to the end. A young man who was with him on his last...