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...Phillips Brooks preached last evening in Appleton Chapel to an audience which completely filled the house. His text was taken from the epistle to the Romans, "I know how to abound." The sermon was most impressive. Dr. Brook's central thought was that men who have abundance ought not to continue to have it unless they keep trying all the time to learn how best to use it. He spoke of four classes of men who have abundance; the wealthy, those who have acquired knowledge of truths, those who are much beloved, and finally, Christians in times of unusual spiritual...
...Lyman Abbott delivered a sermon last night to a large crowd of interested hearers. His text was the words of Christ reiterated frequently in the gospels-"follow thou Me." The common idea of Christianity is that if offers to the world the alternative of a Heaven in which all is joy and a Hell in which all is pain; Heaven is to be gained by "believing in the Lord Jesus Christ," and Hell by disbelieving. Why do not all believe? Because this idea is a pagan idea grafted upon the pure stem of Christian faith. Christ does not offer anything...
...Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn, conducted the vesper service at Appleton chapel yesterday afternoon. He preached a short sermon, taking his text from I. Corinthians, iii., "Let every man take heed how he buildeth." We are free to build whereon we like provided that in the foundation there is strength, and a means of upholding us. No matter what sect we take as our guide and to what we pin our faith so long as the ground work be a true religious feeling. We have the whole world of thought and motive open to us; and all the good...
...Philip S. Moxom, of Boston, delivered a sermon last night on a text from Matthew vi: 10-"Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." This is the most universal prayer of mankind; it includes everything that can be asked for from God. It confesses the imperfection of the human being, of human institutions. It acknowledges the prevalence of weakness, sin and despair in the human heart. At the same time it expresses an unfaltering trust in the goodness and justice of God. It even expresses a belief that in the end the kingdom...
...weather there was a good attendance at the vesper services in Appleton chapel yesterday afternoon. The exercises began with Le Jeune's anthem "Jerusalem the Golden." Rev. F. G. Peabody led in prayer, and the forty-sixth Psalm was read responsively. The Rev. Dr. McKenzie preached a short sermon based on the words found in the fourteenth chapter of St. John, where the disciples, when asking to see God in person, are told by Jesus that "he that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father." We know that God is present everywhere, and that He is looking on us wherever...