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From the earliest days of Massachusetts the ministers have been recognized as representing the chief element of learning, and their opinions have always been much valued on all matters. Even the legislature of the state has listened regularly once a year, until a few years ago, to a sermon by some eminent clergyman, usually discussing most frankly some important political question. From 1634 to 1884 a sermon was preached every year before the General Court of Massachusetts, and usually this sermon was printed and widely scattered over the state. In 1884 the law providing for this annual sermon was repealed...
...representative of classic art. This does not mean that his subjects or even his conceptions were Greek, although some of them were, but that his method was classic. Everything in his work blends with its surroundings. He was a harmonist, a unity of many things. He established no special element in the Renaissance but he put together the best of everything in an inimitable way. His one weakness was in brush work, but this fault was universal in all artists of the period...
...vanity and vexation of spirit." These two writers, he said, have views so opposed to one another that evidently one of them must have been very much in the wrong. And is it not so that viewed from certain standpoints there seems to be an element of truth in the words of the old preacher? Does it not sometimes look as if all this world was vanity and vexation of spirit? Is the reward of this world worth the price we pay for it? The old preacher had tried all the pleasures that this world can offer or at least...
...Does Pessimism, as a doctrine, express any truth of sufficient importance to make this doctrine a valuable element in modern thought...
Prof. Lyon spoke last evening on the Study of the Bible. In the introduction he described the three views regarding the origin of the Bible. One of these treats the book as a revelation, the very words of God. A second denies the divine element altogether and points to what it considers the unscientific, unhistorical and impracticable elements of the book. The third, an intermediate view, finds the unique element of the Bible in the peculiar mission of the Hebrews as the religious teachers of the world, and in the remarkable work of the Bible in the history of civilization...