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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...membership: From '91, N. P. Stokes, Andrew Oliver, C. C. Smith; from 92, H. R. Wadleigh, Percy Dodge, R. B. Greenough. Rev. M. L. Kellner, of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, then conducted the services, and made a short address on the duties of the Lenten Season, taking his text from the tenth verse of Psalm 46. Communion with God comes only through retirement, and Lent is the time to acquire that condition, and to study seriously and carefully the nature of God and the universe...
...Brooks preached at the Chapel last evening. He took his text from the ninth chapter of John, the thirty-fifth and following verses. He said that there is always a great attraction for us in the mental processes of men. In the text the whole religious experience of a man is described. The mental processes in this experience are typical and contain lessons for us. The question of Christ, "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" comes to the man unexpectedly, and so it does to all of us. But we are all conscious of the incompleteness, the fragmentary...
...Williams was the preacher of the afternoon. He read a part of the seventeenth chapter of John, and selected the verse, "Howbeit this kind goeth not out except by prayer and fasting," as the text of his remarks. He said that God demands the spirit of prayer and fasting in every man who desires true success in any work. There are some men of brilliant genius to whom the favors of life come unsought who appear to be independent of this law; but the spontaneous success of their undisciplined genius are never permanent or satisfying. To possess the spirit...
...anthem "Let all those Rejoice," from the oratorio of "Abraham" by Molique. After the responsive service, the soloist of the evening, Mr. C. F. Webber, of Boston, sang Mendelssohn's "Then shall the Righteous." Dr. Brooks read a portion of the fifth chapter of John, and selected as the text for his remarks Christ's question to the impotent man: "Wilt thou be made whole?" He emphasized the fact that there is a spiritual side to every man's nature; that it is not a special gift but is inherent in every character. Christ comes to man not to bestow...
...service was opened with the singing of the anthem "Alla Trinita." Dr. Andrew P. Peabody preached the sermon from the text found in the forty-second verse of the twenty-second chapter of Matthew: "Whose son is he?" It is often possible to learn the traits of a father from a close knowledge of the character of a son. Christ himself said, "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also," and in the life of Christ we have had a perfect likeness of God's goodness and purity. In these days the trouble is that those...