Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...services at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took as his text the familiar passage, "Wake to yourselves, friends of the mammon of unrighteousness." The sermon was scholarly, impressive and full of interest. Professor Peabody said by the mammon of unrighteousness was meant the temporal business affairs of every-day life. We must regard them as an enemy, or a master, or a friend. Treating these matters as inimical, we violate the divine injunction to be faithful in the best of things. By allowing them to lead and control us we no longer serve God but mammon. But by faithfully attending...
...Shall Find." A portion of the speaker's remarks were substantially as follows: "Many men come near certain moral truths in the course of their lives, but because they are not in search of these truths they slip by unheeded. It is of inestimable importance we learn early in life to develop our faculties for seeking only what is good. But it is necessary to devote our youth and old age to this search if we wish to find truth in its symmetry, beauty and grandeur. The Lord will not mock our aspirations or our wants if asked in faith...
...last Life contains an editorial on the New York Evening Post's views on athletics as developed from President Eliot's message...
Wednesday evening Prof. Goodale read a sketch of the life and work of the late Professor Gray, at a meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History...
Professor Norton, on the 29th, will again deliver his lecture on "Some Conditions of Intellectual Life of America," which was so largely attended last week. It will be delivered in Boston and the time and place will be soon announced...