Word: transgressor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weekly service in Appleton Chapel was conducted last evening by the Rev. Theodore C. Williams of New York. He took for his text "The way of the transgressor is hard," and endure hardness as the followers of Jesus Christ. He said that the difficulties into which our sins bring us are not invigorating but destructive. Life is a series of petty skirmishes not for ourselves but for others. The choir sang the following selections: "Lord of all power and might," Mason; "The Sun shall be no more," Woodward; "Lovely appear over the mountains," Gounod...
...week, since the 19th of October he had been exposed to all the batteries of compulsory religion forty-three times. Forty-three times had the boy-choir opened on him with the theme of retribution. Forty-three times had the preacher taught him that the way of the transgressor is hard. Praise, prayer, benediction, - 43 combined failures to accomplish a moral reformation. But the Sunday Herald softened his hard heart...
...students, if for nothing else, in order that the latter might know whether or not they err in supposing, as many do, that the faculty do not trust the honor of the students, and that their policy is to sacrifice the slight offender or even the innocent transgressor that the greater but undetected wrong-doers may see and tremble...