For the first time for centuries we shall again be conscious of a mission, and around all our internal oppositions will be twined a bond which will be something more than a bond of interest.
They shall not endure to face me, far less join argument, or come to propositions and oppositions with me.
Theudas replied in this wise, "Dread not, O king, the oppositions and vain babblings of the Galileans: for of what worth against reasonable and sensible men are the arguments that they use?
It is true that there never was a period when it was not opposed by individuals, but through the lack of any spiritual import these isolated oppositions had never combined so as to produce a united effect.
All this involves particular estimates of value, a characteristic solution of the problems and a harmonising of the oppositions of our existence.
We can hardly expect that the reunion of man on a religious basis will take place all at once, but it would be a great gain if we could only clearly realise what the oppositions are which still keep us apart.
In short, it should depend upon whether the change that results with the acknowledgment of the independence of the spiritual life makes it possible for us permanently to transcend those oppositions and to work towards their reconciliation.
It is not for us to force our life into a finished scheme, but to develop fully and to acknowledge the movements and oppositionswhich exist in our life.
How could this experience be possible if all multiplicity did not fall within a comprehensive whole of life--if our nature were not superior to the oppositions and did not drive us compulsorily to seek a unity?
This task cannot be completely recognised and adopted without making a great divergence from the aim, harsh oppositions and difficult conflicts, manifest in the inner recesses of the soul.
When the existence of these oppositions is denied, or they are regarded as being easy to overcome, there grows up an optimistic, contemplative form of Idealism, which to the holders of other forms inevitably seems abstract and shallow.
Such oppositions and differences as are found to exist in nature, are assumed as the representatives of the elements of necessary antitheses, in a manner in which scientific truth and inductive reasoning are altogether slighted.
During unfavorable oppositions Lowell has turned his attention to the other planets, notably Mercury and Venus, with the result of adding many new and interesting details concerning these bodies.
Schiaparelli was the first to notice that at successive oppositions the same regions showed different degrees of darkness and accounted for these variations by seasonal change.
The Greek religion of Wisdom perished in a false philosophy--"Oppositions of science, falsely so called.
The accompanying diagram will convey a notion of the varied aspects presented by the planet, of the cycles of change through which they go, and of the order in which the oppositions follow each other.
God grant that we may "avoid profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositionsof science falsely so called.
Avoid such, as St. Paul says in our text, as being profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called.
In a nation proud of its sturdy justice and plain good sense, no party could be found to take a firm middle stand between the worst of oppositions and the worst of courts.
To them, all administrations, and all oppositions were the same.
For several successive oppositions a canal will be seen in a definite locality, as regular in seasonal recurrence as it is permanent in place, a well-recognized feature of the disk.
Sometimes oppositions elapse between their several detections for they are not the least difficult of detail; but when they are caught, they prove to lie just where they did before.
These determinations of its size at the two oppositions agree sufficiently well considering the great tilt away from us of the south pole at the time and the horizonward foreshortening of the edge of the snow.
As the oppositionssucceeded one another the northern regions rose into view, and with their appearance came the detection in them of the same phenomena.
How rare they are, however, may be gathered from the fact that the last three oppositions have disclosed but one apiece.
Others are the result of the fiveoppositions that have since occurred.
First, because they showed as shadings lost amidst a shaded mass; and, secondly, the observations at several oppositions indicate a great amount of haze over the region at that season of the Martian year.
Mercator's projection has been the customary one for portraying Mars except for such oppositions as chiefly disclose the arctic pole.
Knowledge of either cap in this the midwinter of its year has been a matter of the most recent oppositions of the planet.
Thus these canals alternated in their state to Schiaparelli and for the earlier of his own observedoppositions to the writer.
At least it has done so for the past three oppositions at which it has been possible to observe well the arctic zones.
Humanity is, then, a thing of oppositions, and of oppositions which are polar and substantial.
The oppositions of humanity have undergone many changes.
How if this unity prove to be the law of which the oppositions are but one clause?
Saturn will then pass during the first half of 1922 into Virgo, which is the largest of all the constellations, and he will remain there until three oppositions have taken place, about thirteen days later each year.
Oppositions differ, however, in different revolutions, and some show us the planet more splendidly brilliant than it appears at others.
The next two oppositionswill be in Leo, about thirteen days later each year.
The oppositions at which Mars shows most brilliant take place, fortunately, in the summer and early autumn--the seasons which are most agreeable for outdoor observation.
These favorable oppositions occur in the summer because the earth is in line in the latter part of August with that point in the orbit of Mars where the planet makes its nearest approach to the sun.
The very best and most brilliant oppositions occur in the latter part of August or in the early part of September; the least favorable ones occur in February.
At oppositions such as this one Mars is more favorably situated for observation from the earth than any other heavenly body except the moon.
But at any summer or early-autumn opposition Mars is not very far from this nearest point to the sun, so that at any oppositions during these seasons he is very brilliant and almost as bright as when he is at his best.
Oppositions never occur when Mars is exactly at that point; but they do occur when he is very near it, and at such times we see him in his greatest glory.
There surely can be no superstition in studying the moon's conjunctions and oppositions if her influence in a nativity have the slightest weight.
First, we can never forget the injury that has been inflicted on science by the oppositionsof a headless religion; any more than we can forget the injury which has been inflicted on religion by the oppositions of a heartless science.
There are also theoppositions of sense and reason hard at work for the devil, against the soul; the men of his own house are risen up against him.
None of the graces of God's Spirit in our hearts can do their work in us without shortness, and that because of their own imperfections, and also because of the oppositions that they meet with from our flesh.
The works, strugglings, and oppositions of the flesh, are more manifest than are the works of the Spirit in our hearts, and so are sooner felt than they.
Wherefore these oppositions are therefore suffered, that the greatness of the wisdom, the power, the mercy, and grace of God to us in Christ might appear and be made manifest unto us.
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