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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book stock is now the largest and most complete that will be offered this year, as only a few special books will be added for the holiday trade. This department cannot continue to sell text-books at the minimum rates offered this year unless its profits on general books are made considerable by increased sales. The rates at which all books are offered are as low as can be found anywhere, excepting possible cases of forced sales of surplus stock or of shop-worn books...
...most perfect developement is seen in the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries of our era. This development was largely due to impulses from without. The range of study was comprehensive and instruction was free. Professor Hall, of New York, gave an account of a Syriac manuscript containing a new text of the Traditions of the Apostles, brief sketches of the works and death of the Seventy and of the Twelve...
Appleton Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity, last evening, by a congregation who came to hear the Rev. Brooke Herford preach. He took as his subject the sacredness of law, and selected the text from the eighteenth verse of Psalm CXIX. He said that the sacredness of law was observable, primarily, in human affairs. All earthy conditions submit to law, else chaos and confusion ensue. Hence we should render a willing loyalty. Dr. Herford said that freedom was overdone in this country because there is so little reverence for law as law. Many yield to authority since they know...
...Middle Ages" is the title of a historical work recently written by Professor Emerton of Harvard. The book covers the period between the years 375-814 A. D. The history, although short, is very complete, and is not only of great value to the student as a text book, but of interest to any reader who is fond of historical narrative. The book is published in a very attractive form, and great care has been exercised with regard to the printing, for the type used is uncommonly large and clear...
...Brooks preached his second Sunday evening sermon at Appleton Chapel before a very large audience. His text was "Demonstration of the Spirit," I Corinthians; 2:4. The speaker said that there are various kinds of demonstrations which are governed by the nature of the teacher, of the leader, and by the message itself. We have demonstrations in mathematics in which authority and reason are our own teachers, while in the demonstrations of the spirit no authority or arguments can be sufficient for us, because our souls cannot be touched except by the spirit. Every mind requires demonstrations according...