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Appleton Chapel was completely filled last night by those who took advantage of the fine evening to hear the Rev. Lyman Abbott preach. Dr. Abbott took as his text, Matthews ix.: 22. The central idea of his sermon was that there is no purification without pain. The Bible, he says, dwells upon the remission of sin, rather than of penalty. Christ was a suffering God, for suffering is not imperfection, but the climax of character. It is suffering that reconciles man to God, and good men and bad men can be brought together only by mutuality of pain. The message...
November 24. Rev. Phillips Brooks...
December 1-Rev. President Andrews. of Brown University...
December 8-Rev. Professor George Harris of Andover...
COLLEGE CONFERENCE MEETINGS.Tuesday, November 19-The Modern Tendency in Theological Thought. Rev. Lyman Abbott...