Word: fenn
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first of the regular Sunday evening services in Appleton Chapel will be held tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Professor E. C. Moore will conduct the service and addresses will be made by the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence '71, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, and Dean W. W. Fenn '84, of the Divinity School...
Religious Service in Appleton Chapel, at 7.30 P. M., conducted by the Rev. Professor Edward C. Moore. The Rev. Dean W. W. Fenn of the Harvard Divinity School and Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, will speak...
...William Wallace Fenn, dean of the Harvard Divinity School, a reverent and philosophic adventurer in the humane restatement of systematic theology...
...usually grieve not because they have but because they lack great possessions, said Dean Fenn, and yet this clean, ardent, and dutiful young man who ventured to say to Jesus, and doubtless with entire sincerity, that he had kept all the commandments, was completely changed in his attitude toward himself and his possessions by a single sentence from the lips of Jesus. In considering the requirement of Jesus in this case, Christendom has unfortunately fastened its attention not upon the essential but almost exclusively upon the accidental element, for the point of his command lies in the "Come, follow...
Turning now to personal life, Dean Fenn said that there were many specific ways in which a man's possessions might stand in the way of his possibilities. Many a man of brilliant parts has made little of himself simply because he was never obliged to put forth all his powers. A man of means frequently fails, just because of that fact, to become a means for the highest ends. Occasionally crises come in which the Christ appears bearing the sword and demanding utter self-renunciation. No one here, almost under the shadow of Memorial Hall, can doubt it. Today...