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...Peabody led the devotional services at vespers yesterday evening and Rev. Mr. Lawrence of Cambridge delivered a sermon. Taking a text from Luke 2-45 where Jesus is found in the temple by his mother hearing the doctors and asking them questions, he said that the young Lord for the first time leaving the narrow, squalid provincialism of Nazareth, with its limited horizon and cramped ideas of life, coming into the larger activity of Jerusalem and beholding the wonders of its temple, might be compared to the student at the university who, coming from the narrowness of his provincial home...
...George A. Goraon gave a sermon in Appleton chapel last night on a text from Acts 12, x. where Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. He said that the outside door of the prison which "opened of its own accord" may be likened to what men find hampering in their environments. Men think they cannot be temperate, pure, or good because their associations tend to make them intemperate, vicious or bad. These environments are really very easy to break through. A strong faith in a righteous purpose will prevail very quickly over these imaginary difficulties...
...Bishop of Richmond recently preached a sermon on football, before a congregation of more than a thousand persons, at St. John's church, Bedford, England...
Divinity School Chapel. Christmas service, 7.30 p. m. Sermon by Mr. Charles Towne Billings...
Divinity School Chapel. Christmas service, 7.30 p. m. Sermon by Mr. Charles Towne Billings...