Word: stress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...George A. Gordon, of Boston conducted the services at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. He took for the general subject of his address "rectitude, humanity and piety" and considered human life and ways of living from these three standpoints, laying especial stress upon rectitude and piety. He said that piety is too often assumed. There are too many young men who think that religion is superficial, that it may be put on at will, and put off at will as best suits his convenience. But a true, deep-feeling religious life consists rather in a life of just relations...