Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...McKenzie spoke before the Christian Association in Holden Chapel last evening. He took as his subject the story told in Matthew 19, of the rich young man who came to Christ...
...Monk Lewis-An Unknown Celebrity," Lindsay T. Damon gives a study of Matthew Gregory Lewis, translator, novellist, and ballad-monger of the early part of this century. "Three Recent Essayists" is best described in the words of the author as "a gossip in personalities, suggested by their treatment of Dumas"; the personalities being those of Mr. H. E. Henley, Mr. Andrew Lang, and Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson...
...Alfred Momerie, D. D., of London, preached in Appleton Chapel last night from a text taken from the nineteenth chapter of Matthew, "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder." He said: The idea that science and religion, or science and theology are incompatible is very common, but is wholly untrue. Science is systematized and classified knowledge. Theology is certainly included in this definition, and so cannot be opposed to science in general. But what is usually meant by science used in contrast to theology is natural science or physics. But really there is nothing inconsistent between physics...
...Scott's poems contain more of the Homeric or epic element than other poems in the English language." [Quoted from Principal Shairp's: The Homeric Spirit in Scott. Aspects of Poetry, p, 324. Contra, See Matthew Arnold's lectures on Homer (passion) in Essays in Criticism...
Nobody who attended chapel last evening felt unrewarded. Dr. Abbott preached a sermon that held throughout the attention of his hearers. His text was from the twenty-third chapter of Matthew; "Be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." In this text are found the three doctrines that govern the progress of humanity, the rise of democracy, the history of Christianity, three developments dependent upon one another. These doctrines are that we have one "Master, even Christ," that no man is master, that all men are brethren...