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March 16. E. H. Abbott, '93. "The Three Laws of Life." Micah...
...Minot J. Savage preached at Appleton Chapel last evening on the theme, The true law of sacrifice, and its relation to the religious life, taking as his text Micah vi. 6-8. In one profound sense we may say that there has been but one religion in the world, in that all have sought to find God. This has been the aim of men everywhere according to their intelligence, in all stages of the world's development...
...Love is Duty, and God is Hope; all religion is summed up in these two words" said Dr. Abbott yesterday evening in Appleton Chapel. From Moses to Micah, he continued, we find the prophets preaching the simple religion of Love and Hope, which the priests endeavor to cover with elaborate rituals. These rituals and ceremonies existed at the time of Christ. If any of them is essential to religion, Christ would have said so. Instead, we find him preaching Law and Gospel which is Love and Hope. His apostles, Paul the theologian, and James the ecclesiastic, also reiterate...
Those who attended the weekly service at Appleton Chapel last evening heard a most interesting sermon by the Rev. Lyman Abbott D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y. He took as his text, Micah vii., 18th verse-first clause: Who is a God like unto Thee who pardoneth iniquity? He said that the Christian religion is the only religion that pardons sins and that sin shall be taken from him that is weary of it but penalty shall not be removed...