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...Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise," sung by Mr. Ricketson, then followed. Rev. Dr. Gordon read from the twelfth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and on this based his address, on "The Irremediableness of Sin." However good repentance may be, it can never undo the past. Every act remains as a record. How deeply soever we may regret squandered riches, overtasked strength, neglected opportunities, as Esau regretted his pledged birthright and Paul his misdirected zeal. yet the objects of our regret remain as facts. But repentance can be of use here. It may raise up in our souls such...
...Johns Hopkins University every year twenty members of the graduating class are chosen as Fellows and remain to pursue a course of study in some branch in which they have shown themselves proficient. They hold an intermediate position between the faculty and the students, occasionally giving lectures...
...power to keep the club going. Though there are half a hundred reasons for desiring the club, no one of them is sufficiently important to become the one prominent motive for it, and as they all, as it were, pull different ways the reasons neutralize each other and matters remain in statu...
...college. For Yale has been placed in an extremely unfortunate position by the action of Princeton and Harvard, and now it looks as though she was being forced into the new league. It is for this reason that many Yale men desire to have their nine remain in the old association for this year at least. But the delegates have decided to follow out what have been their convictions from the first, though it will leave, perhaps, a false impression on the minds of the public. We congratulate the base-ball management of Yale upon the position which they have...
...obey this conscience, which is above reason. It is the glory of man that he may know God. Nature shows God, but some men do not see any divine agency, because God is not in them. They have schooled themselves not to see, and so they will remain, forever, in the dark. When the voice of duty is no longer heard, then the soul is dead, although the understanding may remain. The sin of to-day is the insensibility to spiritual life. Men are asking whether life is worth living, but the souls of such men are dead. "What profits...