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...service at Appleton chapel last evening was conducted by Rev. Theodore C. Williams of New York. The speaker chose for his text the words from the epistle to the Galatians, "Your life is hid with Christ in God." He said that Christ's whole life was bound up in his thoughts of God rather than in his work with His disciples. His perfect sympathy had behind. It something not revealed to the casual observer, for there is often a modesty of holiness, a concealment of virtue which, more than the open avowal of sanctity, is pleasing to God. We should...
...Lyman Abbott delivered a sermon last night to a large crowd of interested hearers. His text was the words of Christ reiterated frequently in the gospels-"follow thou Me." The common idea of Christianity is that if offers to the world the alternative of a Heaven in which all is joy and a Hell in which all is pain; Heaven is to be gained by "believing in the Lord Jesus Christ," and Hell by disbelieving. Why do not all believe? Because this idea is a pagan idea grafted upon the pure stem of Christian faith. Christ does not offer anything...
...regular weekly meeting of the Y. M. C. A. was held last evening. Mr. C. B. Darling, '91, was the leader. He spoke on "Christian Character," taking Christ as the example and showing by a brief analysis of His character the points from which we may gain most materially. If we keep this noble exemplar constantly in our mind, we may imitate his deeds and broaden and enlarge our own characters...
...William Lawrence preached at Appleton chapel last evening, taking as his text John vii, 24 26, where Christ gives his testimony for John the Baptist and tells the people that John was not the reed shaken before the was not the reed shaken before the wind, nor the man clothed in soft raiment, but the prophet. These three symbols are types of characters that are before us to choose front; the reed is the man in college or in public life who is blown hither and thither by every breeze and unable to stand firm against temptation...
...choir sang Barnaby's "Christ whose Glory," Buck's "Jerusalem" and Tuckerman's "Lighten our Darkness...