Word: god
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been given the name of Harvard. In the first place, it is a compliment for Harvard to be thus recognized by the Government, which calls for appreciation from the students. That the Government has taken this step, is a proof of the standing Harvard always has had and please God always will have, in every branch of the public service...
...Door Opened," a collection of sermons by Alexander McKenzie, has been published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Dr. McKenzie presents in these sermons a pleasant and beautiful religion with no suggestion of the wrath of God. He does not ask us to be perfect, but to do our best, and his suggestions to this end are practical and sensible...
...regular Thursday afternoon Vesper Service will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Gounod's "O Divine Redeemer" will be sung by Henry Donlan, soprano; Luetzel's "Machet die Thore Weit" will be sung by a chorus of men alone, and Dr. Pierce's "God of Harvest Praise" will be sung by the full choir...
...play did not win the admiration it deserved, "Athalie," in fact was far ahead of its time, it was written for posterity. The protagonist never appears. The real hero is never seen, for that hero is Jehovah the God of the Hebrews working through the agency of the High Priest...
...Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands of the Arabians and the Philistines, himself died wretchedly from a lingering sickness which consumed his bowels. His fearful death...