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...Everett conducted the Vesper service yesterday and spoke to a fair sized audience, from the text, "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief." Dr. Everett said: There are men today who are just as ardent, just as trustful in their faith in God, as there were in the days of martyrdom. Again there are men who are perfectly sincere in their belief, that there is nothing in the idea of a God who watches and cares for the mortals on the earth. But there is a third class, in whose hearts the cry of the poor father for a strengthening...
This is an age of doubt, not of irreligion. Its temple is one of doubt, not of denial; of unbelief, not of disbelief. Man is a ship made to steer, not to drift, and when he finds that he does not know where he is, the voyage of life becomes melancholy...
...regular Sunday evening service in the chapel last evening. The preacher was Rev. William Lawrence. His text was Mark vi: 56. After narrating the story of Christ's second visit to Nazareth and of His seeming powerlessness to do many wonderful deeds then on account of the unbelief of the people, the speaker turned to examine the reasons for the slow progress the world has made since Christ's time in realizing the ideal of true Christianity. The chief trouble today is that there is an almost universal skepticism as to the possibility of perfect spirituality, of complete subjection...
...exercises that we do not attend; we have religious societies; we listen to good preaching. It is true that we have our little dissenters and deists, our little men of every stamp, but we have also men and students who are not little, who do not affect an unnatural unbelief. And they represent Harvard opinion. Any claim to the contrary is a misrepresentation of us and of the truth. If cheap publications must comment on us, let them do it with at least some knowledge of facts and less use of the perverted...
...Gordon, of the new Old South Church of Boston, preached a marked sermon in Appleton Chapel last evening on the "Dumbness of Unbelief...