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...Chapel was well filled yesterday afternoon at the Vesper Service. The Rev. Dr. Gordon conducted the meeting and after the reading of the nineteenth Psalm, gave a short sermon. He took as his text the incident of Mary being excluded from the inn prior to Christ's birth. He said if men would only consent to come into real contact with 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...
...Nineteenth Century Club will hold a reception in the Opera House at New York to-night. An address will be delivered by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, on the "Aims and Traits of a World Language." A discussion will take place after the lecture, and it will be participated in by Professor Charles E. Sprague, representing Volapuk, and Professor Alexander M. Bell, on behalf of "World English." President Eliot, of Harvard, ex-President McCosh, of Princeton, and ex-President Porter, of Yale, who are members of the club, will probably be present...
...Outlook in the Moslem World." The lecture cannot fail to be instructive as Professor Toy is one of the men in this country most able to deal with his question. The subject itself, also, is particularly attractive, calling, as it does, for a discussion of the spirit of the nineteenth century in its effects upon the East...
...annual business meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York was held on Wednesday of last week. President Eliot, ex-President Noah Porter, of Yale; Prof. W. G. Turner, of Yale; ex-President McCosh, of Princeton; George W. Cable; Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Athens, were elected honorary members. The following subjects will be discussed at the club's monthly meetings: "The Advisibility of a Universal Language," "Practical Politics," "Robert Elsmere." Bronson Howard will lecture on "The Construction of a Play," and M. Coquelin will lecture in French on "Shakspere and Moliere." The club includes among its members many...
...last meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York the governing committee announced that the following new members, among others, had been elected: President Eliot of Harvard, ex-President McCosh of Princeton, Noah Porter, T. W. Higginson, and John Fiske...