Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lyman Abbott, D. D., until lately a preacher to the University, will preach the baccalaureate sermon at Cornell this year...
Tomorrow Rev. George Hodges, D. D., Dean of the Episcopal Theological School will deliver the second sermon in the course under the auspices of the society in Christ Church at 4 p. m. It is hoped that all members of the society who are able will come, and an invitation is also cordially extended to all members of the University, for whom seats will be reserved...
...next feature of importance in the ritual is the reading of the Scriptures which probably gives to many persons of cultivation the only knowledge which they possess of the Bible. In his sermon the minister should be careful not to express ideas which challenge direct comparison with the theories of such world-leaders as St. John and St. Paul. The lifting of the voice in prayer is the last and most important feature of the ritual. The object of the service is to bring the congregation in touch with the spirit of the God who presides over them...
...Class Day Committee has invited the Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, to preach the baccalaureate sermon on the Sunday before Class...
These are the last words of the Bible and Paul often ended his letters in the same way. The sentence has thus become very familiar to us all, but what real meaning has it, is it nothing more than a formal phrase of dismissal at the end of a sermon. It surely should mean more than this to most of us,-even on the surface we see in it the overflowing beneficence of God and the generosity of Christ...