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...early stages of polytheism. Later there came to be one chief God not superior to all the others, but, so to speak, chief among equals. This chief God was Varuna, the enveloper of heaven and sea. The conception of this great enveloper was very beautiful. Dr. Everett read a hymn to Varuna which almost reached the lofty idea of monotheism. But the worship of Varuna gave place to that of Indra, the God of thunder showers. Here again the religion rose to the verge of monotheism but did not quite fully reach...
...choir then sang A Hymn of the Homeland, Sullivan; anthem, Come. Now, let us Reason, Briant; anthem, Nunc Dimittis, Bunnett...
...serve another, but each and every one is responsible to God. There is no being in fact who is not under obligation. Moral and not sensual satisfaction is the aim of life and duty toward God is the only path way to preservation. The service closed with the 262d hymn. The choir sang the following selections: Anthem-Forth to the Fight, Ye Ransomed,- Heywood. Anthem-Lift up Your Heads-Hopkins. Anthem-Out of the Deep,- Mozart...
Prof. Lyon's lecture yesterday was on the "Cuneiform Inscriptions an the Psalter." The Babylonians and Assyrians had many hymns and psalms which resemble the psalms of the Old Testament in form, in tone and in expression. The most striking resemblances occur in the class of psalms called penitential. Several of these productions were translated. When the Jews were exiled at Babylon in the sixth century B. C., they could not fail to be impressed by the splendid ritual of which these psalms were a part, and it is not unlikely that they may have adopted some of them, with...
...choir sang the hymn "Old and New" by J. G. Whittier; the anthems "O Praise the Lord" by Weldon (17th century); "I will mention the loving kindness of the Lord" by Sullivan; and "If with all your hearts" by Mendelssohn. Mr. V. O. Johnson of Boston was the soloist...