Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sacrificing their lives in the cause of student liberty. Such a protest can in no sense mean an encouragement to a revolt against college authority. It is an expression of indignation against any attempt on the part of political and military powers to interfere with the student bodies the world over. MEYER BLOOMFIELD...
...George F. Moore, of Andover, preached in Appleton Chapel last night, choosing as his text the twenty-sixth verse of the sixteenth chapter of St. Matthew: "For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul." In the religions of the ancient world, men had many different conceptions of what the soul is. The Egyptians believed that the soul remained with the body after death, and so invented a means of preserving the body. In the Odyssey we hear of the souls inhabiting a region of shadowy caves beneath the earth...
...this busy world it is necessary for us to discriminate as to what we should do first. Most of us are busily engaged in earthly things, but still there is always waiting for us an invitation to come to Christ. Should this invitation be set aside for another time or should it come first? There are three reasons why it should occupy the first place. To begin with, our future lives are dependent upon its acceptance or its rejection. Then the present time is the easiest time for most of us. After our habits have become firmly fixed...
...development of Christian life these three things are essential: First, good food--the study of the word of God; second pure air--daily prayer with God; and third, exercise--in working for others. Greatness in this world consists in service, and we shall gain our lives by giving them up willingly to others. We cannot control our feelings but we can our will. Therefore we can all become Christians by allowing Christ to be our pilot...
...Vesper Service this afternoon the following selections will be given: "Crossing the Bar," Woodward; Solo and Chorus, "Elijah," Mendelssohn; Solo from "Light of the World," Sullivan, Soloist, J. S. Codman...