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...speaker took for his text the VI chapter Corinthians, 7th verse. What ever a man's belief may be every one is subject to the law of God and Nature that he must reap just what he sows. If there is any lesson that history teaches us it is this fact. We may deceive ourselves into fancied security, but this law will always find us out. The subject divides itself into four divisions upon which emphasis ought to be put, namely, that everyone must expect to reap what he sows, the same kind of seed and more than he sows...
...well from the upper ranks of society as from the slums. Ignorance of what we are doing can make no difference as to the harvest. Disrespect for religious things can only work ruin in our own characters. No nation has prospered that has cast off the worship of God...
...reconcile the doctrine of atonement with this doctrine of retribution. Simply, that although God may freely forgive us he cannot take away the consequences of any of our misdeeds. The worst of our sowing is that others must reap with us. We bring evil consequences upon the innocent. The address closed with a cordial invitation to those present to make themselves known to the speaker personally. Mr. Moody has a very magnetic manner and a pleasing voice. The excellent quality of the singing added much to the pleasure of the services...
What does it mean to do that, she asks? Let her remember, let her know that Christ is law as well as truth; Christ is righteousness as well as revelation. The Christhood which is yesterday, to-day and forever is the perpetual utterance of the unchanging ordinance of God, that only through the doing of the right does man come to the knowledge of the true. Let, then, the college which seeks the highest truth in Christ accept the necessity of righteousness as the sole doorway and avenue to it. We miss the great conviction in too much...
...Hebrews: "We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast into the end." There is no break in such a history as ours. To ever larger duty, to ever larger truth, the old college goes forth under the perpetual inspirations of faith in God and faith in man. Those two together make the faith of Christ. May He who has been our Master from the far off beginning, be our Master, ever more and more acknowledged, ever more and more obeyed on even to the distant...