Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seat in the house was taken, and at 7.15 the doors were closed, and throngs of people were obliged to turn away. The attendance of college students was very large, and the seats reserved for them were far from adequate. Rev. Phillips Brooks conducted the services preliminary to the sermon. Canon Farrar's text was, "By Faith," taken from the fourth chapter of Hebrews, and the substance of his remarks was as follows...
Edward Everett Hale preached an interesting sermon on prayer last evening...
...doubt, to its permanent adoption. The new scheme may be outlined briefly as follows: The front row of seats in the gallery is freshly varnished. Then such students as seem inclined to be restless during the services are ushered to the deceptive seats, and the exercises begin. As the sermon goes on, it is noticed that the students occupying the previously prepared pews begin to assume an anxious expression. This the officiating clergyman considers due to the force of his rhetoric, and his delivery accordingly waxes more eloquent. When the hymn is announced, it is seen that the tenants...
James Freeman Clarke preached an extremely able and interesting sermon last evening in Appleton Chapel. Mr. J. Frank Munroe, of Boston, rendered Mendelssohn's tenor solo, "Be thou faithful unto death." The opening chorus of student voices was from Beethoven...
Episcopal Theological School. Commencement Exercises and Sermon by Bishop McLaren of Chicago. St. John's Memorial Chapel...