Word: standeth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 succeed, in a partial degree, in gaining this high standard. We obtain the wealth for which we are striving, the power, and perhaps...
...second Sunday evening service of the year was held last evening in the chapel with Dr. F. G. Peabody in the pulpit. The text of the sermon was Psalms i: 1-"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, nor standeth in the way of 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...
RIMES.OH, far more fair she standeth there...