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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...McPherson, D. D., of Chicago, preached last night at chapel. He took as his text, "What think ye of Christ?" (Matt. xxii, 42d v.), and spoke as follows: Christ addressed this question to a general assembly of the Jews. There were the Pharisees, the self-complacent religious leaders of the people; the Sadducees, the political sect; the Herodians, who united the selfishness of the Pharisees and the worldliness of the Sadducees and who cordially hated both. Besides. there was present a great multitude of true believers and curiosity seekers. They had been asking questions of Christ: now He turned...
...question, 'What think ye of Christ,' is one which all must ask themselves. It is not a philosophical or a political question such as the Pharisees were continually propounding. It is a question of personal allegiance to Christ and His Church, and the answer to it determines whether or not a man is a Christian. Christ's apostles and disciples may differ on minor points, but they are all agreed on this main point. The answer to this great question will determine all subsidiary questions for us, and yet few have really put the vital question to themselves...
Professor Peabody chose for his text: "Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the signs of the times." He said in part: The period just before us is the greatest period in the history of the world. The man who is to live during the next twenty-five years is to see greater achievements in thought than we have yet seen. Before this future stands the young man setting himself to the task of discerning the signs of the times...
...most conspicuous demand, however, is that of social service. On the surface there is still the scrambling of individualism, but beneath all self-seeking there is heard the call of social service. There is coming a new appreciation of the words: "No man liveth to himself," and "Bear ye one another's burdens...
...celebrated in their songs. It was of such stuff that they were made, of such a history that they came forth, therefore the prophet felt and had a right to feel that an appeal to the past would rouse in them the noblest ambitions. 'Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn,' is his cry, 'and unto Abraham your father.' Such an appeal is the privilege of those nations that have behind them a long and noble history. Other peoples have their sources of inspiration, new countries have the great stimulus of youth. But this is one of the privileges...