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...Abbott took as his text the words of Christ: "Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." The disciples of Jesus had expected that their master would found a kingdom on earth and they came to him to decide which of them should have the highest place. Christ rebuked them in the words of the text, meaning that their expectations must be wholly given up and that to inherit eternal life their spirits must be born again...
...WHITTEMORE.CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. - Regular meeting tonight at 6.45. Mr. E. von Mach will speak on the subject, "Christ, our Example in dealing with Fishermen...
Professor Francis G. Peabody preached at Appleton Chapel last night. His text was taken from the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ;" and also, "For every man shall bear his own burden...
...good. Social evils should be cured by the influence of pure lives. Forms and dogmas that were outgrown should be supplanted only by better forms and better dogmas. The mind should be relieved of half truths by learning whole truths. The great example of the reformer, after all, was Christ...
...than to point out its historic significance. Jesus did destroy, but His purpose was to plant, to create. If He destroyed existing institutions He established still better ones. He was no iconoclast. Especially at the present day was there a need for paying heed to this constructive side of Christ's work. Young men were inclined at present to be iconoclastic. They forgot that though destruction is easy, construction is a slow and painful process. A man's religion might be fetichism but it might be the best that he was able to have. To destroy it without putting something...