Men and women living our modern life are brought into situations which seem as torturing and overwhelming as those of Abraham, and all who are in such conditions find, in his loyal trust in God, sympathetic and effectual aid.
Had we been created self-sufficing or in such conditions as involved no necessity of toil, nothing would be as it now is.
The first was in Albert Hall, Sheffield, on February 27, Lady Harberton presiding, and it was crowded to overflowing with women of all ranks and conditions of society.
One of the great advantages of pioneer life is the necessity to man of woman's help in all the emergencies of these new conditions in which their forces and capacities are called into requisition.
In the Colorado papers of those days of territorial tutelage, there appeared repeatedly most impatient protests against these humiliating conditions of citizenship.
Early in 1869 Mr. Hibbert introduced a bill to regulate the conditions of the municipal franchise.
Consequently, when congress decrees that we shall not, as a State, deprive citizens of rights already guaranteed to them, it does not transcend its powers, or impose upon us conditions from which we are now exempt.
Many of her able articles published in magazines and the journals of the day, and letters from year to year to our conventions, were written in such conditions of weakness and suffering, as only a hero could have overcome.
Her childhood was passed in happy conditions in a home of luxury, where she received a liberal education, yet her married life was encompassed with trials and disappointments.
From one of these letters we obtain a glimpse of the conditions of the Acadians: I shall tell you that I was settled in Acadia.
In this document they offered to take the oath on the conditions offered by Wroth.
When they rejoined the expecting and anxious females, he briefly acquainted them with the conditions of their new guide, and with the necessity that existed for their hushing every apprehension in instant and serious exertions.
I will do my utmost to see both these conditions fulfilled.
These provincial terms are frequently put in the mouths of the speakers, according to their several conditions in life.
Much of the individual viciousness, which society is required to punish, springs directly from the unjust and injurious conditions of life, which society itself has created.
Those conditions having been agreed upon, we made an agreement in writing, binding upon all parties, and our departure was fixed for the day after the morrow.
Such being unquestionably the necessary conditions under which living creatures exist, Mr. Darwin discovers in them the instrument of natural selection.
I think it will be obvious that the principle of final adaptations fails to satisfy all the conditions of the problem.
I knew enough about snow; all theconditions for an exceptionally large drift were provided for here.
Just beyond I saw the big trough of the creek bed, and though I could not make out how conditions were at its bottom, the drift continued on its southern bank, and in any case it was impossible to cross the hollow.
To govern was difficult; to preserve the empire intact, still more so; further aggrandisement almost impossible with the conditionsthen prevailing.
Three conditions I find necessarily requisite in such a thing as the church hath power to prescribe by her laws: 1st.
Aquinas holdeth with Isidore, that a human law (among other conditions of it) must both be necessary for removing of some evil, and likewise profitable for guiding us to some good.
He saith,(555) that God did not absolutely condemn things abused to idolatry, and tells us of three conditions on which it was lawful to spare idolatrous appurtenances.
Either he requires all these conditions in every idolothite and idolatrous appurtenance which may be retained, or else he thinks that any one of them sufficeth.
What one of all those conditions was here wanting?
I conceive that the Holy Ghost in this vision hath pointed at four several times and conditions of the church,—that we may take with us the full meaning, without addition or diminution.
In the smaller one the conditions imposed are satisfied, while in the larger one they are not.
An actual lift of 8½° satisfies the conditionsimposed very well.
After the pallets are unlocked the conditions are reversed, and we now find the lever fork, through the pallets, transmitting power to the balance by means of the impulse radius.
Herschel, and the way in which he met these unfavourable conditions by the method of finger prints, has been briefly described in p.
The courses of the ridges in each square are subject to uncertainties, due to petty local incidents, to which the conditions outside the square give no sure indication.
These six-ridge-interval squares may thus be regarded as independent units, each of which is equally liable to fall into one or other of two alternative classes, when the surrounding conditions are alone known.
My assumption is, that any one of these reconstructions represents lineations that might have occurred in Nature, in association with the conditions outside the square, just as well as the lineations of the actual finger print.
When the internalconditions are in harmony with the external ones, as they appear to be in all long-established races, their joint effects will curb individual variability more tightly than either could do by itself.
We must next combine the above enormously unfavourable chance, which we will call a, with the other chances of not guessing correctly beforehand the surrounding conditions under which a was calculated.
A thermometer carried upward in the air shows under average conditions a fall of temperature of one degree (Fahrenheit) for every 300 feet of ascent.
When the aerial vehicle returns to earth its record shows in detail the conditions encountered during the journey.
Under some conditions the particles evaporate before reaching the earth, while under others they maintain a solid or liquid form and constitute rain or snow.
All this would have been very simple had it not been for the instructions and conditions agreed upon by the two men.
Such conditions as Neenah presented were not unknown to her.
Conditions in Aratat were not much changed from what they had been prior to the event of the legatory invaders.
One day at the Savage Club, he listened to a recital of the amazing conditions which attended the execution of Skaggs's will.
She had asked him to come to her--but conditions were not the same as when she sent the compelling message.
I am not a traitor to my cause, in telling you this; it is no more than I would expect from you were the conditions reversed.
For we can imagine the several other conditions in which the Pope might be placed.
The greater number of these facts," says the medical report, "possess all the conditions to cause them be admitted as supernatural.
The secular is bound by the limitations and conditions of time and place; the spiritual is above and independent of all such conditions and limitations, and is universal, always and everywhere the same.
It is perfectly natural that I should wish to see all the conditions carried out, since we have agreed to try an experiment.
The old and young were instructed in the faith, catechetical classes were opened, and all ages and conditions took pleasure in contending for the pictures, medals, and other little rewards which were bestowed upon the studious.
Certain conditions have to be fulfilled of which I am not perfectly informed, but of which the curé of Lourdes will tell you.
Mrs. Lamb told him, with the lucidity of which under such circumstances she was past mistress, what she thought of him, and what treatment she would have accorded him if the conditions had only been a little different.
Before entering into negotiations for the production of your play, do you know what would be one of the preliminary conditions I should be disposed to make?
There is a thing within my bosom tells me That noconditions of our peace can stand.
Fear you not that: if we can make our peace Upon such large terms and so absolute As our conditions shall consist upon, Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
Hath the Prince John a full commission, In very ample virtue of his father, To hear and absolutely to determine Of what conditionswe shall stand upon?
They dictated theconditions of peace, and each condition was an insult on the majesty of the empire.
Thus we perceive that, after a series of trials, the Venetians eventually reverted to the form of government which appeared to be most agreeable, on the whole, to their conditions and genius.
He referred the settlement of the conditions to Saad, son of Moad; who being wounded by an arrow at the ditch, had wished he might only live to be revenged.
He began life as a workman in the silk trade, so that his two conditions of operative and proprietor are likely to make him impartial.
It was then that, aware of his folly and injustice, he despatched a message to De Boigne, requesting him to return, on whateverconditions he might please to make, consenting beforehand to them all.
Never before were the conditions of progress so bright, not only for the favored few in one or two lands, but for the multitudes the world over.
In my opinion these characteristics, also, are due to the conditionsof society, past and present, rather than to the inherent nature of the people.
Numberless conditions determine by stimulation or imitation the manifestation of psychic life.
Under these conditions it is not at all strange that "falling in love" is not so common an experience as in the West.
In truth, modern industrial conditions have pretty well banished the old-time custom of haggling.
Conditions of life that struck down countless individuals, and mental conditions which made Buddhism so popular, both point to this conclusion.
Regardless of distressing circumstances, the child is able to laugh and play, and this because he is a child; a child in his ignorance of actual life, and in his inability to perceive the true conditions in which he lives.
The conditions which have served to develop musical taste in the West have but recently come to Japan.
The fact that the Japanese are an emotional people renders it probable, a priori, that under suitable conditions they would be especially subject to the emotion of reverence.
Among Christians, the conditions are fulfilled for intimate relations between Occidentals and Orientals which result, as a matter of fact, in genuine and intimate friendship.
These conditions differ for different lands, peoples, ages, and political relations, producing diverse social orders for each separated group.
The conditions which affect or determine progress are those which affect or determine personality.
But that after what had happened, it was necessary that the manner and the conditions of their withdrawal should be clearly understood.
When one is discussing this possible formation of cults and brotherhoods, it may be well to consider a few of the conditions that rule such human re-groupings.
The only reason for such an Order is the economy and development of force, and under existing conditions disciplines would consume more force than they would engender.
No man can tell what savagery of desperation these newconditions may not release in the soul of man.
Greek thought impresses me as being over much obsessed by an objective treatment of certain necessary preliminary conditions of human thought--number and definition and class and abstract form!
I do not know whether the average age of the parent at the birth of a child under modern conditions can be determined from existing figures.
We have to take life valiantly on these conditions and make such honour and beauty and sympathy out of our confusions, gather such constructive experience, as we may.
In England, for example, in the last century, where socialconditions have been comparatively stable, discussion good and abundant and internal migration small, there have been far fewer such developments than in the United States of America.
With such safeguards and under such conditions marriage ceases to be a haphazard dependence for a woman, and she may live, teaching and rearing and free, almost as though the co-operative commonwealth had come.
We have to live in the present system and under the conditions of the present system, while we work with all our power to change that system for a better one.
Other conditions beyond the horizon, an oasis for instance, were inconceivable.
Nothing could have been more strange to the Gurkha and more different from what his training for frontier warfare had taught him to expect than the conditions in Flanders.
Neither the severe conditions of the winter, nor the strange and terrible phenomena of destruction evolved in the new Armageddon, could damp his fighting spirit.
They were allowed to go, the conditions being that they were to go bare-footed, they were not to take rifles, and they were to do the work with the kukri.
This is probably a new alloy Washington wants tested for behavior under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure.
With some it is motived by the desire to secure for wage labour in all "Christian" States conditions compatible with human dignity and self-respect.
The voluntary unions appoint committees for the security of class interests, and especially for the purpose of making agreements as to conditions of work.
For the last four weeks before Christmas, and for particular Sundays and holidays, which, owing to local conditions call for greater activity in trades, the police authorities may order an extension of the hours of work up to ten.
And such it really proves to be on examination of the present conditions and already observable tendencies of Labour Protection.
But that it should be so retarded is the very last thing to be expected under the conditions supposed, viz.
What will become of the youth and future of our people if such conditions become normal?
But of the measures included within these limits not all are as yet in operation; and the actual conditions are different in the various countries.
Regulation of admissibleconditions of contract, and of legal extensions of contract.
This will necessitate in the first place a comprehensive survey of the existing conditions of Labour Protection, and to this end a regular arrangement of the different forms which it takes.
