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...Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. His subject will be on the second prescribed by the Founder, as follows: For the confirmation, illustration, and improvement of the great articles of the Christian religion, properly so called, or the revelation which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was pleased to make, first by Himself and afterwards by His Holy Apostles, to His Church and the world for their salvation...
...literary aspect of the English Bible; its relation to modern problems; its connection with the sacred books of the East; the light thrown upon the Old Testament by a knowledge of the New Testament times; the spirit of the Psalms; the Sermon on the Mount; the teachings of Christ; the speeches of Paul. The lecturers will include Professors Toy, Everett, J. H. Thayer, Peabody, Palmer, Lyon, White, Wright, Hart, Kittredge, Rev. Lyman Abbott and Rev. Henry Van Dyke...
...text chosen from Psalms 19: vii., "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." He dwelt upon the "moral law." If a man does all that he ought to do, he will do more good than he will do by some special service. The choir sang, "Christ is risen," Sullivan; "The Lord is my strength," Smart; "Allehele, Sing praises," Whitney...
...Testament in interest to students. The Old Testament is a history of the Hebrews from their own hands and the cuneiform inscriptions give us the history of the Babylonians and Assyrians with whom the Hebrews came much in contact. From the downfall of their mighty civilization, centuries before Christ, their records were lost till the site of Babylon was identified in 1765. It was not till 1848 that the labors of Botta, Place and Layard brought to light several Assyrian palaces and a mass of sculptures and writings on clay...
After the inscriptions had been discovered the work of deciphering them was tremendous and would have been impossible if it had not been that in the sixth century before Christ the Persians reduced an alphabet from this Babylonian script. The recurrence of proper names afforded a chance to compare these records with known history, but the greatest advance in decipherment was made when an extensive inscription was discovered written parallel in Persian and Cuneiform characters. Stereopticon views were shown explaining the geography of the Assyria, pictures of the ruins, excavations and restorations, and facsimiles of the inscriptions discovered...