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...been good. The vesper services have been thronged. There never was more religious life and activity at Harvard than to-day. The tone of morals is exceptionally healthful. Public sentiment in college is on the side of sincere and manly piety. The old practice of appointing a single preacher and compelling the students to hear him had to be given up at Harvard, as it will sooner or later have to be at Yale and every other real university." The sober and appreciative spirit manifested in this editorial is very refreshing when compared with the frivolous and sensational articles which...
...Right Rev. William Croswell Deane, Episcopal Bishop of the Albany (N. Y.) diocese, who has been chosen Commencement Preacher by Cambridge University, England, is one of the most finished and eloquent pulpit orators in this country. He has frequently preached in England with great success...
...Edward H. Hall preached at Appleton Chapel last evening from the text: "I will not let thee go unless thou press me." The preacher described the many temptations which assail men on every hand and the moral strength derived from the struggles against them...
...Bible, much information is given us by the recent Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries. Isaiah lived in that period of the Assyrian invasion of Palestine, and was a contemporary of four Assyrian kings. He lived at the court of Jerusalem during most of his life, filling the positions of court preacher, physician and counsellor. Isaiah was a determined opponent of all foreign alliances, and even when Sennacherib was besieging Jerusalem was, unwilling to call upon Egypt for assistance. He advised the people to put their trust in "Javeh," who would deliver them from their danger. Actually, the Assyrian King met with...
...lecturers in the Yale Theological School for next year will be: Dr. Broadus, Lyman Beecher lecturer on "The Preacher;" Dr. John Hall, on "Universality of the Gospel;" General Armstrong, of Hampton, on "The Negro Race." It is expected that the incoming class will be very large...