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Tomorrow night the pulpit at Appleton Chapel will be occupied by Protap Chunder Mozoomdar of Calcutta, who spoke at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, for the liberal religious thought of his native country. Since the Fair he has been lecturing and preaching in various places in this vicinity, and has always awakened the keenest interest in his hearers. he speaks excellent English so that his thoughts have as free and unhesitating a flow as those of men of our own nationality. Besides the interest which he has aroused by his speaking, he has attracted much attention by his book...
Appleton Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity yesterday noon at the funeral of the late Dr. Peabody. As the casket was borne in, preceded by the pallbearers, the audience rose like one, and stood till it was placed beneath the pulpit. After the Reverend Edward H. Hall had read passages from the scripture and offered prayer, Professor F. G. Peabody spoke upon the life of the dead preacher...
...came to Harvard in 1860, when forty-nine years of age. His reputation was established, and his powers at their prime. He was a simple, unpretentious preacher, with none of the graces of the pulpit, and, judged superficially, he was not the man to draw the thoughtless element in the college. But his greatness soon made itself felt. In his words, was a sincerity which made the students give heed. A wisdom that made them believe, and a gentleness that made them love...
...photograph by Pach taken recently in Cambridge. There have been better likenesses, but as the Harvard picture, sentiment makes it good. After the portrait there is printed in full the last sermon Dr. Brooks preached in Appleton chapel. One cannot read it without seeing the great man in the pulpit and feeling again the force of his rushing words on the "necessity of life" and "the glory of obedience." There is also a fac-simile of the last page of the same sermon with the date of its delivery...
...grand tribute to Phillips Brooks that even the storm could not keep St. John's Memorial Chapel from being filled last evening, when Bishop Clark of Rhode Island spoke of Phillips Brooks as he had known him in the pulpit, in the bishopric, in his life...