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The one led to the other. Without the one we cannot have the other. That there is that of God in every man was, as already implied, more than a belief or a concept with the early Friends. It was an experience. It was a recovery of the living Deity.
Again, who has not dreamed of a dream? who has not remembered dimly what yet experience contradicts? who does not confound fact and imagination, to the damage of his reputation for truth?
Pilate's question, 'What is truth? ends all. "This is the extreme penalty of the heroic sceptical resolve in strong and constant minds; commonly those who would measure man's large scope by the gauge of their own ability and experience fall into such idiosyncrasy as is the fruitful mother of sects, abortive social schemes, and all the various brood of dwarfed life; but, for most men, the pressure of life itself, which compels them, like Descartes, doubting the world, to live as if it were real, corrects their original method of independence.
If either Erasmus or I ever build a house of our own we shall eschew the hardwood-floor heresy as we would a pest. There is another evil which I am at this moment reminded of, and that is the folding-door evil. In all my experience I have never met with another door as honest, sensible, and trustworthy as the door that swings on hinges.
When her emotions had expended their force and she arose, an experience befell her which revealed the immaturity of her mind.
"Duncan," he said, "what's the trouble?" "I thought you knew that; I thought that was why you called me in with my route half-covered." "You mean ?" "I mean I can't sell your line." "Why?" "God only knows. I want to, badly enough. It's just general incompetence, I presume." "What makes you think that?" Duncan smiled bitterly. "Experience," he said. "You've tried what else?"
Phil Draper, famous in Williams football, and without doubt one of the greatest halfbacks that ever played, also served his time as an official. He says: "From my experience as an official, I believe that most of their troubles come from the coaches.
His answer to the question, "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord," shows that there is deliverance from a life held captive under evil habits that have been struggled against in vain. That deliverance is by the Holy Spirit giving the full experience of what the life of Christ can work in us: "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."
The chief burgomaster and the burgomaster are chosen from trained and experienced candidates, and are always men of wide experience and severe technical training, who have won a reputation in other towns as successful municipal administrators.
I see by woeful experience that what is pretty in itself will not make a pretty drawing, and everyone says so; but I never could find out why." "Perhaps because we cannot represent it adequately." "Yes, but there is another puzzle; you sometimes see an exact representation, which is not really a picture at all.
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