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Professor Peabody conducted Vesper services yesterday afternoon. His address was a strong one and his earnest appeal to give more thought to God made a deep impression...
...wish to speak on the object of the movement. Education in general has been too exclusive in its scope. The time has now come when we see that the laboring classes should have the advantages God meant to give by education, and it is for this that the movement was begun. We have found it possible to lecture to these lower classes in the arts and be welcomed by them. I have found that the libraries, in places where the movement has been at work, have been used much more than before, thus showing in one instance the good done...
Sacrifice originated in the idea that the dead needed ministry and care, and the necessary things were brought and laid on the graves, the first altars. Then it was thought that by bringing their gifts to the altar, they entered into close relations with their God and formed ties of loyalty to him. The next step made it a necessity that the gifts to the god should be of the finest and these the people willingly gave. And we tonight to come close to God, must give to him the finest and dearest that we have...
...classics were among those who thought the gods were open to barter and were influenced by the richness of the the gifts. This view was justly decried by the Hebrew prophets. Jesus himself did not oppose sacrifice so far as it expressed the higher feelings, only as it took the place of these feelings. According to the teaching of Jesus, the pathway into the presence of God is through right relations to our fellow...
...would make every human being an ideal man. If a man could live rightly in body, soul. and spirit, religion could do nothing for him. The ideal for a man in life is to be on right relation with his fellow man and with his God...