Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sacred olive tree, planted by Athena herself. Throughout the city itself were the temples, altars and idols without number. Yet all this magnificence had no effect on Paul save to stir his spirit, while the obscure, modest altar "to an unknown god" gave him the text to his famous sermon on the Areopagus. It is interesting to note that in this sermon Paul quotes, in the words "For we are also His offspring," from the writings of Eudoxus, the originator of the Epicurean philosophy...
...sermon was an exposition of how hard and persistently people work to attain low ends and to what an extreme they carry worldly lives; and ended with an exhortation to extend those energies in a worthier and higher cause. The story of the unjust steward was cited as a proof of how far worldliness may be carried when resolved to attain its end, and the history of the years of laborious and painstaking work of the Eastern dancing girls was given as an example of how hard people do strive for success in the lower grades of life. Then another...
...sermon at the vesper service yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel was delivered by Rev. T. C. Williams upon verses from the fourth: chapter of the book of Proverbs. The reason why resolutions for the new year are so easily broken is because they are so trivial; since it is far harder to do a small, comparatively unimportant thing than a great one. A man should try to change himself morally and begin a thoroughly new and good life. A single bough may be hard to cut off; the axe should be laid at the root of the tree. Each...
Yesterday evening in Appleton Chapel, W. E. Huntington, D. D., of Boston University, preached an able sermon on Christian Life. His text was taken from Ephesians, 4th chapter, 13th verse. "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ...
...Walter A. Taylor, who had been previously elected by the students as speaker of the evening, delivered an interesting address. He read from the Bible the announcement to Mary and the birth of Christ, and then preached a distinctively Christmas sermon which was very well received...