Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Nobody who attended chapel last evening felt unrewarded. Dr. Abbott preached a sermon that held throughout the attention of his hearers. His text was from the twenty-third chapter of Matthew; "Be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." In this text are found the three doctrines that govern the progress of humanity, the rise of democracy, the history of Christianity, three developments dependent upon one another. These doctrines are that we have one "Master, even Christ," that no man is master, that all men are brethren...
...taken us many centuries to understand these truths and even today we seem not to realize that all men are brethren. The Jews of old knew that God alone is master, no man else, and in a way recognized that all are brothers. For many democratic principles were their possession, notably the right of universal suffrages and popular education. Then came Christ and taught his disciples that all men rich and poor, are before everything else brothers...
Most of all do we need a brotherhood in the church, and this we are sure to have. Even now we are beginning to feel that Protestants and Catholics are brethren in that they are all Christians, and even that Christians and agnostics, who believe in the eternal goodness and charity, are brethren, as all are striving to better their fellowmen...
Further, it is held that when God answers a prayer, His will must be changed; and this is opposed to the conception of His changelessness. We answer that His purpose is always the same and that on this very account its outward form of expression must change, even as a father's love for his child, though always remaining the same, will show itself in ever varying ways...
...care to join the Mott Haven squads in the Trophy Room at the Gymnasium at 4 o'clock. There were about 250 different men who at various times during the year were under Mr. Lathrop's training last season. This year fully as many must be had and even more if possible...