Word: matthew
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...services at Appleton Chapel last evening were conducted by Rev. William Lawrence. He read the fourth chapter of Matthew and took as his text "Ye shall not tempt the Lord, thy God." In his sermon he studied the temptations of Jesus, his method of meeting them, and made practical applications of the lesson. He traced parallel temptations of the Church which in its overconfidence of God s love and mercy is constantly in danger of tempting Him. He spoke also to those who put their love of truth to too severe a test, and of the overconfidence of the young...
...Professor William T. Tucker of the Andover Theological Seminary, preached at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took his text from Matthew vi:2, where Christ, speaking of the Pharisees, says, "Verily I say unto you, they have their reward." He said that often where a principle finds an apt illustration as here, we bound the principle by the illustration. But here the principle is so important that we must not lose it thus. It is Christ's purpose to teach that the personal reward of an action corresponds, and is proportionate to the motive. He applied this princilpe...
...Brooks was the preacher of the afternoon. He read a portion of the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew. He spoke of the simplicity with which the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem is here described, and said that in that very simple city there are many lessons for us. He dwelt particularly upon the second verse of the chapter. It illustrated the need of the greatest things of this world for the least, of the highest for the lowest. The most insignificant things become essential when there is a demand for them. So in life, there is a place...
...same studies. President Eliot gave two reasons for this state of affairs, one was that Americans are unwilling to put their boys to hard work and strong lists, and the other was that the French teachers are more numerous, more enthusiastic and better educated than our own. Matthew Arnold also wrote on the superiority of German and French education at the time when he was making an extensive study of this subject. The question at present is how to improve the schools so that the young men may go out better equipped and the whole teaching force be better trained...
...service was opened with the singing of the anthem "Alla Trinita." Dr. Andrew P. Peabody preached the sermon from the text found in the forty-second verse of the twenty-second chapter of Matthew: "Whose son is he?" It is 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...