Word: godly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Smith; from 92, H. R. Wadleigh, Percy Dodge, R. B. Greenough. Rev. M. L. Kellner, of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, then conducted the services, and made a short address on the duties of the Lenten Season, taking his text from the tenth verse of Psalm 46. Communion with God comes only through retirement, and Lent is the time to acquire that condition, and to study seriously and carefully the nature of God and the universe...
...always a great attraction for us in the mental processes of men. In the text the whole religious experience of a man is described. The mental processes in this experience are typical and contain lessons for us. The question of Christ, "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" comes to the man unexpectedly, and so it does to all of us. But we are all conscious of the incompleteness, the fragmentary character of our life, and there is an underlying conviction that there is something which will unify the fragments and make our lives complete. With this question comes...
...Williams was the preacher of the afternoon. He read a part of the seventeenth chapter of John, and selected the verse, "Howbeit this kind goeth not out except by prayer and fasting," as the text of his remarks. He said that God demands the spirit of prayer and fasting in every man who desires true success in any work. There are some men of brilliant genius to whom the favors of life come unsought who appear to be independent of this law; but the spontaneous success of their undisciplined genius are never permanent or satisfying. To possess the spirit...
...gift but is inherent in every character. Christ comes to man not to bestow upon him some new force, but to develop this force which already existed dormant within him. The question is will we be thus made whole-have our manhood rounded out? Will we yield ourselves to God and allow the divine will, which alone knows what our completed character should be, to work itself out in us? The anthem at the close of the service was the "Crucifix" of Faure, for male voices only...
...often possible to learn the traits of a father from a close knowledge of the character of a son. Christ himself said, "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also," and in the life of Christ we have had a perfect likeness of God's goodness and purity. In these days the trouble is that those who profess to be sons of God, do not give to the outside world traits belonging to the Father-they do not reflect his "loving kindnesses and tender mercies." It should be the aim of all of us who call...