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The unworthy were suspended, and those who failed to measure up to the standard of knowledge, character, and spiritual life, were refused. Could there be a clearer demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit and the presence of Jesus Christ, than the discipline that removed the unworthy and refused the unfit, when the Church was so weak in number and assailed by hordes of enemies?
Although she was reported to be anything but a pattern pupil in respect of attention to her lessons, she became from the first the chosen favorite of every one about her. The very offenses which she committed against the discipline of the school were of the sort which provoke a smile even on the stern countenance of authority itself.
Wherever a numerical minority, by means of superior wealth or intelligence, of political concert, or of military discipline, exercises a greater influence on the society than any other equal number of persons, there, whatever the form of government may be called, a mixture of aristocracy does in fact exist.
With a feeling that he was involving both the girl and himself in still darker storms, the young fellow yielded to her command, and together they walked along the weed-bordered path, while she continued: "This isn't the first time Cliff has started in to discipline me; but it's obliged to be the last.
Many of the guards outside the prison all of whom are drawn from the slums will have come from that quarter and, as they have no idea of discipline, will, when they see the flames mounting up, leave their posts and rush off to see to the safety of their homes.
He did not seek to lessen your burdens, but to add to the means of education among you. There is also an inherent power of discipline in the public schools, where they are graded and a system of examinations exists, that is not found elsewhere.
"In Heaven's name, what are your intentions, then?" asked the Austrians there. "Peaceable in the extreme," answered Schwerin, "if only yours are. And if they are NOT !" There sits Schwerin ever since, busy strengthening himself, and maintains the best discipline; waiting farther orders.
Quick, quick, go and tell them to meet me in the woods." The letter-carrier, a man used to discipline, obeyed and withdrew, angry and grieved at not being able to be present at the investigation. The Mayor, in his turn, prepared to go out, took his hat, a big soft hat, and paused for a few seconds on the threshold of his abode.
They are willing to drift with the gale. Many of the advocates of the second point of view many of the people who hold to the old line, pure-science teaching are, on the other hand, animated by a spirit of irrational conservatism. "Down with radicalism!" they shout; "Down with the innovators! Things that are hard and dry are good mental discipline. They made our fathers strong.
I look upon all these individualists, whether practical or theoretical, as the average mass of humanity, the common soldiers, so to speak, as distinguished from the officers. Life is for them a discipline, and their raison d'etre is that of the learner, as opposed to that of the teacher.
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