Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rev. George A. Gordon preached at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took his text from Revelation IV., 3, "And there was a rainbow round about the throne." He said that man always describes his feeling by symbols, and so it is with John; he had a vision which he embodied...
Last year this feeling found expression in the Globe Theatre meetings and this year other less general plans for organized work among the poor have been discussed and tried. They have demonstrated the existence of a healthy religious life among us, but have not been quite satisfactory because of the...
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Wheeler finished his lecture, begun Monday, on "The Marbles of the Parthenon." The lecture was largely taken up with descriptions of the sculptured figures on the western pediment, as contrasted with those on the other pediments. The figures on the western pediment are varied both in character...
The frieze forms one of the most important parts of the sculptures in the Parthenon. It represents the procession at the Panathenaea, the greatest of the Athenian festivals. The basreliefs stand out boldly representing the whole progress of the procession, the chariots, the horses, and the armed youths, then the...
Dr. McKenzie read as the lesson the sixteenth chapter of Hebrews. He said that nothing is more inspiring in the character of Abraham than his sublime faith. He then spoke of the reasonableness of our faith in God and what it means to us in this life and the life...