Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sermon yesterday Beecher called the present Congress the "fool Congress," for cutting off the emigration of the Chinese, who he said were necessary to do the "vulgar" work...
...marked paper has been sent to us in which there is the report of a sermon of a celebrated divine. The reverend gentleman undertakes to show that the state of morals of Harvard suffers by comparison with that of colleges where co-education exists. The article is so rabid in its denunciation of Harvard as a school for virtuous young men, and so laudatory of the pure and virgin-like atmosphere of institutions where young women exert their elevating and refining influence on the beatic youths, whom by daily converse they keep from the sins that would condemn them...
...large attendance at the chapel services Sunday morning is a strong evidence that men are willing and anxious to attend church services when suitable inducements are offered. Who would willingly lose an opportunity to hear a sermon preached by such a man as Noah Porter? On the other hand, who cares about listening to a soporific discourse delivered by one Mr. Smith...
...drnm. Why is a kiss like rumor? Because it flies from mouth to mouth. Why is it like a sermon? Because it requires two heads and an application...
...Sermon by J. E. Maude. Divinity Hall...