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...said, and give the world the benefit of it. Young men at Harvard, in my opinion the greatest University in this country, have exceptional advantages. They have it in their power by leading true Christian lives to do a great deal of good. But it is necessary to love Christ not to profess him. In this age it is not enough to argue with men who do not believe in Christ. We must set them the example, and there is no better way to show them how to be Christians than to live Christ-like lives...
...Peabody spoke very highly of the University extension and hoped the movement would grow in the University. As Jacob gave the flock of sheep water, so should we give knowledge of Christ...
Yesterday evening in Appleton Chapel, Rev. Wm. Lawrence spoke on Christ's injunction to the seventy disciples, "Salute no man by the way.' St. Luke, Chapter 10, 4th verse...
...great number of the young men who start in life with the determination to work for Christ, lose their faith after three or four years simply because they lose their earnestness. They get nothing to take the place of the faith they have lost. They have stopped to salute every man by the way, and distracted by the questions on all sides of them, they have been unable to maintain their zeal. One way, then, to overcome this evil is to inspire the young with permanent enthusiasm...
...however, that these young men have faith, have they the courage of their convictions? To be a christian does not require much courage, one may say. No, if we mean by christian the conventional kind; but for a man to devote himself body and soul to the service of Christ does require courage. Let men who are afraid to stand up for christianity remember the great men who in the past have been proud to call themselves christians...