Word: nazareth
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...choir sang, "To us is Born," by Praetorious, "The Star that now is Shining," by Oliver King, and "Nazareth," by Gounod...
...Leighton Parks opened the service. Dr. Lyman Abbott, who preached the sermon, his last as a college preacher, took as his text, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." From their earliest history down to Christ's time the Jews had looked with a broader or narrower vision for a deliverer of their race. This forward looking was the distinguishing feature of the Jewish religion. So that when so simple men as the shepherds heard the angels' song they needed no interpretation of the message. Confucius...
...Lawrence of Cambridge delivered a sermon. Taking a text from Luke 2-45 where Jesus is found in the temple by his mother hearing the doctors and asking them questions, he said that the young Lord for the first time leaving the narrow, squalid provincialism of Nazareth, with its limited horizon and cramped ideas of life, coming into the larger activity of Jerusalem and beholding the wonders of its temple, might be compared to the student at the university who, coming from the narrowness of his provincial home, discovers in his new sphere so many new and inspiring ideas that...
There was a large congregation at the regular Sunday evening service in the chapel last evening. The preacher was Rev. William Lawrence. His text was Mark vi: 56. After narrating the story of Christ's second visit to Nazareth and of His seeming powerlessness to do many wonderful deeds then on account of the unbelief of the people, the speaker turned to examine the reasons for the slow progress the world has made since Christ's time in realizing the ideal of true Christianity. The chief trouble today is that there is an almost universal skepticism as to the possibility...
...Christianity it would have the effect of an electric battery, establishing a complete sovereignty in their thought, interest, and being. The choir sang the anthems, "It came upon the midnight clear," by Sullivan; "Thus said the Lord," from the Messiah, sung by Mr. Richardson, of Boston, and Gounod's "Nazareth...