Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...service opened with Costa's anthem, "Let the People Praise Thee," sung by Mr. D. M. Babcock, '77, with the choir. Dr. F. G. Peabody offered prayer, and led in the responsive reading of the ninety-first Psalm. The Rev. M. Gordon preached a short sermon, taking his text from the passage in the first chapter of John in which John is questioned about himself by the Jewish priests. He answers, "There standeth one among you whom ye know not." In our minds "education" means the training of our intellects or hearts to some high and noble ideal. We often...
Appleton Chapel was moderately well-filled yesterday afternoon by those attending the vesper service. After the first hymn, Dr. McKenzie offered prayer, after which he led in the responsive reading of the 91st Psalm. Dr. Francis G. Peabody preached a short sermon, basing his remarks upon the 19th and 20th verses of the twenty-first chapter of John, Jesus' seeming rebuke to Peter for his hesitation. Peter's hesitation and apparent wish to yield to another the responsibility of the call "Follow Me" probably arose from a sense of his own intellectual and morality incapacity. Thus it is with...
...wish that every student in the university might have heard President Hyde's sermon in Appleton Chapel last evening, not so much for the point of view taken by the speaker, as for the nobility and earnestness of his thought. It was grand sermon, benefiting all who listened...
...good-sized audience attended the vesper service at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. The congregation read responsively the 91st Psalm. Dr. Francis G. Peabody offered prayer. The Rev. Theodore C. Williams of New York, preached a short sermon, basing his remarks on the words which Jesus spoke first to the Pharisees and then to his disciples, telling them that it was because. He had opened their eyes and they no longer were blind that there could be no palliation of their sin. Our sins are many or few according to our knowledge of them, and therefore, together with our first higher...
...Chapel was well filled yesterday afternoon at the Vesper Service. The Rev. Dr. Gordon conducted the meeting and after the reading of the nineteenth Psalm, gave a short sermon. He took as his text the incident of Mary being excluded from the inn prior to Christ's birth. He said if men would only consent to come into real contact with Christianity it would have the effect of an electric battery, establishing a complete sovereignty in their thought, interest, and being. The choir sang the anthems, "It came upon the midnight clear," by Sullivan; "Thus said the Lord," from...