There
is no grander idea than that expressed in the word endurance, which is defined as "the ability to bear and continue under destructive forces; patient fortitude," etc.
The
story of the three Hebrews who were cast into the "burning fiery furnace" gives us a tragic picture of the enmity of material sense toward every manifestation of Spirit, its self-disclosing, self-defeating endeavor to destroy all that is not amenable to its attempted rule.
The
wise saying of a century, that "imitation is the sincerest flattery," is often cited, and when the New York Evening Sun says editorially that "indirect testimony to the extraordinary success of Mrs.
There
are few mature people of thoughtful temperament and refined moral nature who have not suffered a sense of unspeakable revolt as they recalled the occasions of the past when they said and did ignoble things, when they clung to brooding thoughts which were an offense to their present ideals.
It
is scarcely possible to lay too much emphasis upon the fact that joy is one of the essentials of our being, that it is to our mentality what sunshine is to fruit and flower.
The
sentence imposed upon Adam—"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground"—is usually remembered with a bitter sense of resentment on the part of those who believe that they must suffer endless pains and penalties because of the mistake made by their remote ancestor, but Paul gives a happier turn to thought when he says, "As in Adam all die; even so in Christ shall all be made alive.