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...work other men who were not members of any religious organization, but were ready to help in the common charity. The reason that brought men of different creeds and doctrines together to work side by side lay in the fact that they all felt the same deep love for God and man, and they knew that these sentiments were best expressed by philanthropic work...
...Greer of New York preached last night at Appleton Chapel from the text "God hath said, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die," taken from the third chapter of Genesis. He said: It seems at the first sight hardly credible that death should have entered into the world by one man's disobedience and that in so slight a thing as eating fruit from a certain tree. But taken as a parable this story has a lesson for every one. The Garden of Eden may stand for the life...
...aspiration. There a man lost all sense of self and turned his thoughts to the life to come. The chief purpose of the association was to afford a man an opportunity of continuing his early home training in religion, and to increase daily his knowledge and love of God. The society did not stand for stagnation, but for perpetual learning...
...Parks preached from the text "Called to be saints," from the first chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Paul, he said, was called by God from a life of persecution and wrong-doing to fulfil God's purpose. The thought that he was thus doing God's work was to him always a comfort and a source of strength, and the same thought can be as much for all of us. Suppose three men came together to college, ond distinguished by a loving heart, one with no strong inclinations and without principles, and one with a desire...
...truth, will find when he has studied geology and chemistry and other sciences that there is underlying everything some great purpose. Nature is not thrown together hap-hazard. The greatest scientists have agreed that there is some purpose underneath all the world. So we all are working in God's great purpose and are called by Him. And more than that, we are "called to be saints." By sainthood we understand nothing weak or effeminate, but rather an ideal manhood. In saintliness there is much room for variety, but in all ages, under all circumstances, it must include a receptive...