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Owing to the inclement weather there was an unusually small attendance at the Chapel yesterday and Rev. Edward Everett Hale gave an informal talk on temptations. The great secret of successful resistance of temptation is immediate resistance. Christ did not hesitate but said at once: "Get thee behind Me Satan." The accounts of Christ's temptations are often thrust in the back-ground, yet men are tempted in the same way today. The temptation of the Pope to plunge nations into war that he may regain his temporal power resembles the temptation on the mountain; the temptation of business...
...Chapel. The former said that as it was necessary to choose a text he would take his from 2 Tim. II, 3, but he hoped the time would come when ministers would find their texts in their own hearts. "Suffer hardship with me as a good Soldier of Jesus Christ." This military conception was a favorite with Paul, and he also took many figures of speech from athletic contests. Life is a struggle from beginning to end. Man must work to get his daily bread, man must work for intellectual supremacy, and man must work for spiritual supremacy. In this...
...present age exacts of each his daily task. Even the wealthy seek some useful employment. Work brings health, peace and happiness, and wonderfully develops the worker's character; how many put off work until the night comes! To how many does the sun pass into eclipse at noon-day! Christ's life of work was that of a young man, and his teachings and example should appeal strongly to all young men. Though as one biographer puts it the record of Christ's life would fill the world, yet it is all summed up in the single sentence "He went...
...revealed to anyone some of the beauty and power of life has acted as a priest. While no man can reveal everything he himself knows, much less can he reveal what is known to God. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Luthers, Calvin, Edwards, Channing, and Morris have written about Christ, and yet but little has been revealed about Jesus. How, then, shall we know the truth? Truth is life, - God's life, and the soul that partakes of the life of God, partakes of the truth of God Christ was was such a one: I am the truth...
...that would have been powerless, had he kept the health and strength that were his birthright. A man will gain the power to pass unharmed through temptation if he will put himself in communion with great men and deeds. And above all he must live in the presence of Christ and let Him have his life. Men are not slow to recognize the difference between hearing about the Christian life from one who wears his heart upon his sleeve and one whose heart is deep hid with Christ...