Boy Life and Self-government

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Young men's Christian association Press, 1912 - 310 sivua
 

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Sivu 274 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child : now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
Sivu 242 - Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit,' whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery.* enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ,' and renewing our wills," Ho doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the gospel.
Sivu 50 - A fire-mist and a planet, — A crystal and a cell, — A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell ; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod, — Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
Sivu 264 - All possibilities are in its hands, No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands; In its sublime audacity of faith, "Be thou removed!
Sivu 269 - A creed is a rod, And a crown is of night ; But this thing is God, To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.
Sivu 180 - Every adolescent boy ought to belong to some club or society marked by as much secrecy as is compatible with safety. Something esoteric, mysterious, a symbolic badge, countersign, a lodge and its equipment, and perhaps other things owned in common, give a real basis for comradeship. This permits, too, the abandon of freedom in its yeasty stage, which is another deep phyletic factor of the social instinct. Innocent rioting, reveling with much...
Sivu 159 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, Thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.
Sivu 279 - ... houses — the isolation of the boy's soul, the lack of any one to listen to him, the loss of roots to hold him to his place and make him grow. This is what drives the boy into the arms of evil, and makes the street his home and the gang his family, or else drives him in upon himself, into uncommunicated imaginings and feverish desires. It is- the modern story of the man whose house was ' empty,' and precisely because it was ' empty,' there entered ' seven devils
Sivu 32 - Early and middle adolescence is still the great crime period. The shirking of the average home largely accounts for this boy waste, but the ethical failure of the ?ublic school is to a degree responsible also. t is significant that the worst year in boyhood is usually the year after leaving school.
Sivu 134 - All the real authority resides in the Assembly, of which all Heads of Households are members. The simple procedure, or rather the absence of all formal procedure, at the Assemblies...

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