Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Johnson's double page painting, "A Week-day Sermon," in Truth tomorrow...
...Tucker spoke upon the subject of repentance, illustrating his sermon by telling how John the Baptist and Jesus Christ called their hearers to repentance. He went on to show how difficult it is for all classes of men to really repent. Some cannot reach the individuality of their sin because they are a part of a great army which sweeps them on in its progress and restrains them from acting independently as they might if they were alone. Others fall into a kind of mental indifference from which they seem to be unable to rouse themselves; they can not throw...
...Winchester Donald, D.D., of Boston, preached last evening at Chapel. He took as his text "And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God." (Galatians II, 20th v.). The substance of the sermon was as follows...
...through and through a man, imbued with the common life. He submitted to every conceivable injustice and finally to an ignominious death. During the first part of his ministry he had dreams of a national revival. His career was as truly political as that of Wendell Phillips. His sermon on the Mount was a political document...
...substance of his sermon is as follows: The chief reason why men hold away from religion is because it perplexes them. As we know Christianity, it comes to us in a most perplexing form, presenting many doubts and a long and complicated history. We doubt, not because it violates our ideas but because it goes beyond them. In the same way, Christ was doubted, even by his disciples, when he spoke in parables; but when he spoke clearly, he was generally believed...