Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chapel was well filled last evening by a congregation which assembled to hear a sermon preached by Professor Geo. P. Fisher, D. D., of Yale. The text was taken from Ephesians iv-26: "Be angry and sin not." The preacher said that he had examined all the essays in the New Testament in which Christ is said to have shown anger towards them about Him and that he had found those classes of persons towards whom the anger had been drawn; first, those who endeavored to tempt Him to desert His mission and to put his power to a wrong...
...sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." Any serious mind, the speaker said, would pray to be delivered from irreligion and immorality, but it is not apparent at once that contempt should be placed in the same category and on the same level with these evils. The sin of the scorner is, however, much more insidious, deceitful and benumbing than that of the ungodly man. To know the good and then to despise it, to yield to the contagion of irreverence, is the most hopeless of all sins. The choir sang anthems by Perceval and Barnby...
...GRAND OPERA HOUSE.- "Wages of Sin...
...GRAND OPERA HOUSE.- "Wages of Sin...
...GRAND OPERA HOUSE.- "Wages of Sin...