Word: paul
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Howard N. Brown of Brookline, preached at Appleton Chapel last night from the text, "That which thou sowest it is not quickened, except it die," taken from Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians. Immortality, he said, is something in which many people find it hard to believe. It seems to them unnatural and as its truth can not be absolutely proved, they refuse to accept it. Yet the belief in immortality is something necessary for the existence of life on earth. What would all that we do here amount to, what would be the inducement to work and patience...
...PAUL'S SOCIETY.- All members are earnestly requested to attend the meeting in Holden Chapel, Monday evening, to hear the report of their delegates to the Missionary Convention at Detroit...
Throughout Paul's life we feel the strength of his personality, and yet of his own desire he was wholly, absolutely the product of the personality of Christ, who was in turn the medium for transferring the personality of God. It is the same way in our life. We are moulded into separate individualities by the greater personalities of the world who have influence over us, and it is thus that our soul is developed. The ideal forces of all time have been wielded by personality, and that of Christ has been of greater influence than any other...
...Paul's plea "That I may know Him," was satisfied partially when, going to Damascus, he was changed from a hater of mankind to one of its firmest advocates, when he turned from the scorn and contempt of a Pharisee to the love and duty of a Christian. Then again he grew to know Chirst from studying and appreciating his life until, as the orb of day pierces the early morning mists, so he saw the personality of Christ rise through the sorrows of his life. Finally Paul grew to know Christ by serving Him; he suffered and accomplished, lived...
...Smith of Dorchester addressed the St. Paul's Society last night from the text "Depart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man." He said: One of the first things we notice in talking with a well educated man is the extreme care with which he chooses his words. We are accustomed in ordinary conversation to put things in much stronger language than there is any occasion for. When we stop to think of what we have said we often find that we are not entirely sincere...