Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...significant remark was made by Dr. Brooks in his sermon on Sunday morning, - "And now it is the privilege of festival times like these . . . that the college feels anew its relation to the whole of things. . . . . On his birthday, when he stops his work to gather up his life, the man knows himself more than the individual; the whole humanity to which he belongs grows dear to him." The greatest benefit of the celebration just over is the lasting influence of its inspiration, in giving the students at once a clear conception of the real meaning of college work. There...
...anniversary chorus of the Glee Club sang delightfully, and gave that great charm to the whole service which magnificent music always adds. The voices blended with exquisite harmony and showed the result of careful training. But what we shall chiefly remember about the service was the strong and masterly sermon by Prof. Peabody. Never before have we heard such a composition from our honored Professor of Morals, and well may be proud to have amongst us as our guide a man who possesses such power of conception and expression as Prof. Peabody showed in his sermon of yesterday...
...shall speak of the grand service of the evening? Those who attended it must relate a repetition of the glorious music of the morning enhanced by the excellent quartette of the four graduate voices. But still more, who shall speak of the beauties and magnificence of the grand sermon by Rev. Phillips Brooks? Two thousand listeners must try to answer; we cannot...
...Mighty Fortress. Luther. Sermon...
...most present with her children who have come up to her festival, she sits like Jerusalem upon her hills, "the mother of us all." It is that personal presence, which is with us here tonight. What I want to do in the time which I may occupy with this sermon is to remind myself and you that this great being whom we reverence and love, must stand in some concise relation and obedience to universal being, must feel her life included in some larger life, or else she fails; of her best growth and good, and to see how that...