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...soon to begin his work in Boston at Trinity, filled all the available space. The manly presentation of sound reasoning which characterized the preacher's work last night should attract large numbers of the students to morning prayers. The text was from the "Acts" 19th Chap. 11th verse, "And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul...
...largest audience that has assembled in Appleton Chapel on any Sun day evening this year listened last evening to Bishop J. H. Vincent, D. D. He took as his text Gen. I:31; "And God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good...
...must consider the times of the writers, the local coloring given to divine inspection. But we have grown out of these old ideas. We realize that man can be as truly religious in the counting room as in the prayer-meeting, that he is as much in God's service while holding the throttle of a mighty engine as amid the quiet and seclusion of the sanctuary. All things are goods, the +++ comes from their perverted use. +++ participating in all of this +++ work and pleasures, with a mind +++ with the goodness of it, all we are truly tending Godward...
...relation of the heathen Scandinavian to his God was a sort of a commercial one; when he wanted something he sacrificed to his God and only then. This sort of belief became unsatisfactory to the people shortly before the dawn of Christianity, and a sort of atheism...
Renan's idea of God was that the highest there is in man is in itself God, and this is expressed in the beautiful. Thus God is an attribute of man, and therefore man must strive for perfection, to be attained through the intellect. Renan said that prayer is not needed...