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...James Buckley of New York preached last night in Appleton Chapel from the text: "To an unknown god," Acts, 12th chapter, 23d verse. His sermon was a forcible explanation of the absolute necessity of believing our universe wisely ordered and ruled by divine intelligence, instead of believing it un-ruled and purposeless...
...speech to the Athenians from Mars Hill, in which are found the words of the text. The Greeks had been imagining, just as men have always imagined, what forces ruled this world, and in their anxiety to reverence every divine power, they had erected an altar "to an unknown god." It was this god that Paul so marvelously described to them. His conception, familiar to all of us today, of the one all-powerful, all-loving God, was simply the fundamental conception which shines forth from the beginning to the end of the mysterious book we call the Bible...
...with one talent, in Christ's parable, was perhaps devout enough in thought, but he did nothing; if he had any religion he kept it to himself, and made it useless. Full and complete religion is the realization that one has his mission of work to do for God, and the determination to do it earnestly, hopefully and with consecrated spirit...
This fine idea running through them all struck me forcibly, namely, the great house of meeting built by many men for all men, where they together might sing praises to God and join with each other in friendly intercourse and mutual help...
...God keep safe and guide aright our fellow-graduate, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States