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Sunday evening Bishop John H. Vincent, of Buffalo, N. Y., gave the last sermon of his winter term as visiting minister to the University. He took as his text, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth." He pictured an avalanche sweeping down a mountain side. Any one standing at the base of the mountain could see the destruction and yet beyond it the clear, blue sky. Such a view of life is afforded by the Bible. The book is not wholly pessimistic, for it sees the blue sky beyond. It is not wholly optimistic...
...meeting of the Harvard Religious Union last evening in Holden Chapel, Mr. Harris, of the Divinity School, spoke on the "Force of Prayer." Mr. Harris said that all the greatest and best things on the earth, the great cathedrals, which are the highest type of architecture, the Bible, which is the highest form of literature, have all come into being, directly or indirectly, through prayer. Everyone feels the need of looking up to some higher being, and this want is satisfied by means of prayer...
...creation. The sun in his glorious course, the moon as she shines peacefully in the heavens at night, the roar of the sea, the growl of thunder and the flaring of lightning,- all are manifestations of God's presence. In early times my forefathers had no cathedral but the earth, no ceiling but the sky above their heads, no floor but the ground beneath their feet, no altar lights but the moon and stars; yet then was religion most real and most accessible to them...
...formation of mountain chains be satisfactorily explained by the progressive refrigeration or the earth's interior alone...
Professor Drummond went on to speak of the theory of evolution. Everything in this life is kept up by the death of things around it, and it is to this function of reproduction in nature that all happiness in the world is due. The fruits of the earth are the fruits of reproduction, all beauty in the world comes along the line of reproduction. We live by what this function has done...