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Bishop Vincent preached at Appleton Chapel last night from the text, "He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel," taken from the one hundred and third psalm. He said God has revealed himself to men by acts and not by words. People seem usually to think that the way God has revealed himself to us is by causing the Bible to be written, and thus many think that the Bible came directly from God, is divine, and is therefore infallible. Truly the Bible is God's word and was certainly inspired...
...resolved to devote his life to religious reflection. For six years, according to the Indian legend, he studied the existing systems without getting any satisfaction from them. At last an "illumination" came to him which was the basis of future Buddhistic theory. It was expressed in a sort of psalm, full of the elaborate wording and solemn tone of the oriental style. Three immutable "facts" were laid down concerning the "constituents of being;" first, that they were "transitory;" secondly, "miserable;" third, "lacking in the ego." As the doctrine of faith and works may be considered the characteristic of Christ...
...Edward Everett Hale preached last night in Appleton Chapel from two texts taken from the nineteenth Psalm: "The heavens declare the glory of God," and "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." In the middle of this psalm there is a sudden change-the first part tells how all God's works in the heavens and on earth praise Him, while the second shows the relation of God to man. Here, as in many others of the more beautiful psalms, are connected together the infinite and the finite; the infinite works of God and the finite nature...
Prof. F. G. Peabody preached in Appleton Chapel last night on ideas suggested by the first verse of the first Psalm and more especially by the last sentence, "nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
...Seventy-third Psalm David considers and solves the perplexity which has been troublesome to not a few, in all ages. Virtue with crosses and misfortunes is not rare while vice is often prosperous and comfortable. Here a poor seamstress earns enough to sustain life only by constant and painful labor and there a careless cumberer of the ground is quite content in everything; here a charlatan thrives and there a well-equipped practitioner has scarcely a patient; here a demagogue makes a fortune out of the people's fears and hopes and there a patriot is unheeded...