Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Savage took for his text two passages: Hebrews xii, 27 and 28; and Matthew v, 48. He showed that religion, stripped of its ceremonial and reduced to its essence, the effort of man to get into better relations with the Supreme Power, is a permanent element in human life; and that, furthermore, religion, in this abstract sense, is the one distinguishing characteristic of true manhood...
...Matthew Went Beyond the Mountains" is a clever story by Henry Alexander Phillips. The conventional Yankee country people are treated with pleasing freshness...
Last evening Dr. McPherson conducted the last of his series of services in Appleton Chapel. The attendance was unusually large. Dr. McPherson chose his text from Matthew v, 7: "I came not to destroy but to fulfil." He spoke, in effect, as follows...
Among Macmillan and Co.'s most popular December books are Matthew Arnold's "Letters," which have already gone into the third edition, and Mrs. Oliphant's "Makers of Modern Rome," which is in a second edition. Lafarge's "Considerations on Painting," and Miss King's "New Orleans," have also proved very popular, both of them having gone into a second edition...
...Paul's Society held a very successful reception to new members of the University at the Colonial Club last evening. Bishop Lawrence, Dean Hooper, Mr. King and the other members of the Cambridge clergy were present, besides Mr. Nathan Matthew, the builder of Matthews Hall and the founder of the Matthews scholarships, Professors Ashley, Wright, de Sumichrast, Morgan, Wendell, Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Gardner. Short addresses were made by Bishop Lawrence, Mr. Matthews, Professor de Sumichrast and H. E. Addison '96, the president of the society...