Word: godly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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WHEREAS, It has pleased God in his divine mercy to remove from our midst our esteemed riend and classmate, Argyll Fraser, realizing that we have lost in him a kind and genial companion, we, the class of 1892 of Harvard University, do hereby...
...York. He chose as this text the first and second verses of the one hundred and thirty ninth psalm, "Thou hast me searched and known; yea all my thoughts afar to thee are known." The worldly estimation of character he said, is made by expert judgment; but God alone knows man's true character. The choir sang Gilbert's "A wake thou that sleepest," Selby's "I will magnify thee," and "As now the sun's declining rays," by Barnby. The service closed with the 253rd hymn...
...souls; second, the invisible emanations from the soul, ill-understood, but known as mind; and lastly the method of arresting the migration of the mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss or joy. Good authorities state that the Hindoo religion is dark and despairing, but this is not so. For this pessimistic idea springs not from despair but from disdain. In the spirit of divine ecstacy the Buddhist and Brahmin...
...chapter was an epitome of practical advice. It is of peculiar value to us because of the light it throws on our duties as members of society. In this epistle to the Romans, St. Paul struck at the idea that men who wished themselves up to the worship of God must separate themselves from contact with men. We have adopted the Pauline idea: the theory of the church is coming more and more to be that strong character cannot be developed without contact with men, contact which cannot always be with good men. And so our Christian men live...
...services at Appleton Chapel last evening were conducted by Rev. William Lawrence. He read the fourth chapter of Matthew and took as his text "Ye shall not tempt the Lord, thy God." In his sermon he studied the temptations of Jesus, his method of meeting them, and made practical applications of the lesson. He traced parallel temptations of the Church which in its overconfidence of God s love and mercy is constantly in danger of tempting Him. He spoke also to those who put their love of truth to too severe a test, and of the overconfidence of the young...