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...Sterndale Bennett, entitled "His salvation is nigh unto them that hear Him." His singing is worthy of unusual comment. Rev. Phillips Brooks then spoke of the three notable visits which Christ made to the Temple: the first as a child when He was recognized as a child of God, the second, when He was found disputing with the doctors; the third, when He cleansed the temple. These visits represent three periods of man's life: childhood, the desire for knowledge, and the desire to use this knowledge for the best purposes. No one is perfect unless all these periods blend...
Last evening Rev. Francis G. Peabody delivered the address at Appleton Chapel. He took his text from the twentieth chapter of the first book of Kings, which tells of the deliverance by God of the Syrian army into the hands of the Israelites because they said that God was only God of the hills and not of the valleys...
...speaker said that our life with its great diversity of joy and sorrow, opens like the battle of the Syrians and Israelits among the hills and valleys of Samaria. We, like the Syrians, are too apt to disregard the influence of God on the average man of the valley, and we place our attention and admiration upon the fortunate ones who have reached the mountain summits of success. But God rules among the hills and valleys alike and it is only from the later stage of mediocrity that the advance of morality is reckoned...
...fettered by conditions hostile to the advancement of spiritual goodness; the answer is that without opposition there would be no stimulus for us to exercise our full strength in the attainment of perfect lives. Only by opposition was Samson stimulated to break the strong cords which bound him. God is ever filling our lives with temptations and doubts in order that we, by overcoming these forces, may make our souls heroic, and get an unshaken trust in the Almighty who rules over us. As long as we become stronger fighters for God we can rejoice in the temptations which beset...
Unless our consciences are used they become dull, and lose the light which God planted in us. The light of God's word is brought to us whenever we seriously read any portion of the bible, we have all felt the influence of His word as having some bearing upon ourselves...