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Dr. Phillips Brooks preached last evening in Appleton Chapel to an audience which completely filled the house. His text was taken from the epistle to the Romans, "I know how to abound." The sermon was most impressive. Dr. Brook's central thought was that men who have abundance ought not...
Among the early Romans in Keeping with their time there was much darkness and stumbling. There were of course in this confusion many cults. Two only are selected for special mention, those of Jupiter and Mars.
Jupiter was identified with the Greek god Zeus. He was the lightning god and various other functions were grouped around this one. The fear of lightning was very great among the Romans, and they held a lightning stroke to be a serious mark of the god's anger To appease...
Mars was the sun god and around him was established the worship for the seasons. Elaborate ceremonies for the celebration of spring and autumn festivals were observed. The "October horse" was known to the early Romans as a corn demon or harvest divinity. He was slain in the fall but...
The Rev. Theodore C. Williams of New York conducted the vesper services in Appleton chapel yesterday afternoon. He took as his text the latter part of the seventh and first of the eighth chapters of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans: "For the good that I would, I do...