The Strenuous Life Spiritual and The Submissive LifeR.F. Fenno & Company, 1912 - 117 pages |
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... electric disturbances circle around them , they are the last throes of war- ring matter approaching its lowest potential . Gradu- ally these disturbances subside ; the fiery elements confine themselves to zones or burning spots , and ...
... electric disturbances circle around them , they are the last throes of war- ring matter approaching its lowest potential . Gradu- ally these disturbances subside ; the fiery elements confine themselves to zones or burning spots , and ...
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... electrical cell or element possesses only a feeble current ; but taking , for instance , fifty of these cells and connecting them into a battery , this battery will possess a great potential , and through its in- strumentality we will ...
... electrical cell or element possesses only a feeble current ; but taking , for instance , fifty of these cells and connecting them into a battery , this battery will possess a great potential , and through its in- strumentality we will ...
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... electrical science now coursed through my mind with rapidity . What connection might there well be between electrical science and the laws of God in their mysterious manifestation upon earth , especially in their direct influence upon ...
... electrical science now coursed through my mind with rapidity . What connection might there well be between electrical science and the laws of God in their mysterious manifestation upon earth , especially in their direct influence upon ...
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... electrical force . Electricity is the child , a derivative of magnetism . If we place an obstacle to the swift course of the magnetic lines of force , running between the poles of a magnet - a revolving armature for instance this ...
... electrical force . Electricity is the child , a derivative of magnetism . If we place an obstacle to the swift course of the magnetic lines of force , running between the poles of a magnet - a revolving armature for instance this ...
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... electric current . How prodigious must be the energy which can send this current in the twenty- eighth part of a second along the trans - atlantic or trans - pacific cables - from one hemisphere to an- other ! However , let us cast a ...
... electric current . How prodigious must be the energy which can send this current in the twenty- eighth part of a second along the trans - atlantic or trans - pacific cables - from one hemisphere to an- other ! However , let us cast a ...
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Page 10 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 19 - The cloistered virtue which timidly shrinks from all contact with the rough world of actual life, and the uneasy, selfconscious vanity which misnames itself virtue, and which declines to cooperate with whatever does not adopt its own fantastic standard...
Page 56 - These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy : and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Page 37 - ... plane, and is, indeed, in itself an allegorical illustration of just this law. Remember, always, that you are but a Centre in the Ocean of Life, and that all others are Centres in the same ocean, and that underlying both and all of you is the same calm bed of Life and Knowledge, the property of all. The highest and the lowest are part of the same One Life — each of you has the same life blood flowing through your veins — you are connected with every other form of life, high or low, with invisible...
Page 39 - These circles correspond ti the three aspects of God, which are without beginning, and end in God, though externalized only during active manifestation. TABLE OF VIBRATIONS WHOSE EFFECTS ARE RECOGNIZED AND STUDIED BY SCIENCE Number of Vibrations per second 1st Octave 2 2d 4 3d 8 4th 16 5th 32 6th 64 7th 128 8th 256 Sound.
Page 10 - A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. I ask only that what every selfrespecting American demands from himself and from his sons shall be demanded of the American nation as a whole. Who among you would teach your boys that ease, that peace, is to be the first consideration in their eyes — to be the ultimate goal after which they strive?
Page 10 - I, the Lord Jesus Christ, am the writer of this book by revelation, through this medium, Archie Inger "Christ," and I have interpreted the meaning of John's revelations, which should be interpreted in this last day, to prepare the way of my last coming upon the earth.
Page 46 - Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one distinct being or object; single; one." The same authority informs us that the word arises from the Latin word individuus, meaning "indivisible; not divisible.