Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prof. Lyon spoke last evening on the Study of the Bible. In the introduction he described the three views regarding the origin of the Bible. One of these treats the book as a revelation, the very words of God. A second denies the divine element altogether and points to what it considers the unscientific, unhistorical and impracticable elements of the book. The third, an intermediate view, finds the unique element of the Bible in the peculiar mission of the Hebrews as the religious teachers of the world, and in the remarkable work of the Bible in the history of civilization...
Harvard Religious Union. The Study of the Bible. Professor D. G. Lyon. Holden Chapel...
...FRIDAY.Harvard Religious Union. The Study of the Bible. Professor D. G. Lyon. Holden Chapel...
...changed, and the man who knows nothing of the stories of the Bible is as ignorant as the man who cannot tell anything about the best modern stories. It is just such classes as this one of Professor Thayer's and such courses as Semitic 12, under Professor Lyon, that are going to popularize the reading and the study of the Bible and make them a delight where once they were a burden...
...first Bible Class of this kind was one which was held here a number of years ago by Professor Thayer, and which used to meet every Sunday afternoon in the chapel of Dr. McKenzie's church. Three years ago another class was instituted and conducted by Professor Lyon, but after the first winter fell into abeyance and from then until now no attempt has been made to have a regularly formed Bible Class...