Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Appleton Chapel last evening Rev. Lyman Abbott delivered a masterly sermon on the Bible taken as a whole. He said: The Bible differs from all other religious books in that from Genesis to Revelations it has the golden thread of promise running through it. The Bible is not merely one book; it is a library in itself consisting of sixty-six books written by forty or fifty different authors, and yet though it took fifteen centuries to compose it, it has a unity that none other possesses. It is this unity of promise that bids us hope for a better...
...chapel yesterday evening Prof. D. G. Lyon preached the New Year sermon. Prof. Lyon took his text from the parable of the two sons sent to work in the Vineyard, Matthew XXI. He said: He who gives us our appointed place and capacity knows no difference save in the quality and spirit of our work. In the parable there are represented two types of sons; the first, who, busy with other interests refuses to go to work in the vineyard and afterwards repenting does go, the second who at once consents to go but does not. Three other classes...
...Professor C. M. Woodward. This too abounds in illustrations - points of interest and public buildings in St. Louis. A Mr. Nevins contributes some weird stories of Salem Witchcraft and the "Old Oaken Bucket" is treated of exhaustively in two articles. Towards the end of the volume is printed a sermon on Abraham Lincoln which was preached by Bishop Brooks a quarter of a century ago in Philadelphia...
...spirit and the bride both say come" was the text of Rev Leighton Parks' sermon last night. Mr. Parks said...
...Appleton Chapel last night Dr. Brooke Herford delivered an eloquent sermon on Paul's experience in prayer, II Corinthians XII, 7. He said...