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...York, preached last night at Appleton Chapel, from the text "Jesus had compassion for the multitude." He said: Pity is love that wants to do something for others, love anxious to sacrifice itself. Jesus had a great pity for the poor. He pitied first their hunger, second their ignorance, and third their lack of leaders...
Even in the time of Jesus hunger was a very real evil, but it is now a thousand times worse. There are in New York multitudes of men who can not get enough to feed their families. By starvation and poverty they are driven to desperation and when desperate the are dangerous to the community. To remedy the evil of their situation something must be done which no careless charity can do. Giving a man money that he has not earned only pushes him farther down the scale of manhood and makes the struggle to get up all the harder...
...Jesus show his pity for the poor, their hunger, their ignorance, and their lack of leaders? He had no patent remedy, no ingenious social reform schemes. He said: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
...Donald said: The vesper services were not established for the purpose of instructing but for worship of God. There are constantly two streams flowing from the human heart. It is not enough that a man should have a clean conscience, and a clean head; there is a hunger for Almighty God that must be satisfied. We die alone and for the most part live alone; a man's friends and even his love, no matter how strong, are both insufficient. We are incapable of expressing what is in our hearts, so, feeling that God must know everything, we simply fall...
...choir sang the following anthems: "They Shall Hunger no More." - Dykes...