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...third of the Lenten sermons given under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society will be preached tomorrow afternoon at 4.15, in Christ Church, Cambridge, by the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence...
During Lent the Rev. George Hodges, Dean of the Episcopal Seminary, will hold Lenten Service every afternoon at 5.30, in St. John 's Memorial Chapel. The morning service on Ash Wednesday, March 3, will begin...
...except on Wednesdays, are conducted by members of the society and consist only of the reading of a shortened form of evening prayer. They begin promptly at 6.45 p. m., and last about fifteen minutes. They thus afford the Episcopalians here a convenient and simple means of observing the Lenten season. All members of the University are cordially invited to attend these services...
...Lenten Season is the period for the formation of habit. One should make a definite resolution and follow it day after day unceasingly. Dean Hodges suggested that each man resolve to go to chapel each morning. Even if he did not feel any benefit from the service himself he was aiding others who needed the services by his presence, for it is a trait of human nature that a crowd always draws more to itself. He said the services should not be viewed with any sectarian idea. They were the family prayers of the college and sectarianism...
...were admitted to membership: From '91, N. P. Stokes, Andrew Oliver, C. C. 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...