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...Brooks preached his second Sunday evening sermon at Appleton Chapel before a very large audience. His text was "Demonstration of the Spirit," I Corinthians; 2:4. The speaker said that there are various kinds of demonstrations which are governed by the nature of the teacher, of the leader, and by the message itself. We have demonstrations in mathematics in which authority and reason are our own teachers, while in the demonstrations of the spirit no authority or arguments can be sufficient for us, because our souls cannot be touched except by the spirit. Every mind requires demonstrations according...
...Chapel was well filled last evening by a congregation which assembled to hear a sermon preached by Professor Geo. P. Fisher, D. D., of Yale. The text was taken from Ephesians iv-26: "Be angry and sin not." The preacher said that he had examined all the essays in the New Testament in which Christ is said to have shown anger towards them about Him and that he had found those classes of persons towards whom the anger had been drawn; first, those who endeavored to tempt Him to desert His mission and to put his power to a wrong...
...second Sunday evening service of the year was held last evening in the chapel with Dr. F. G. Peabody in the pulpit. The text of the sermon was Psalms i: 1-"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." Any serious mind, the speaker said, would pray to be delivered from irreligion and immorality, but it is not apparent at once that contempt should be placed in the same category and on the same level with these evils...
...first service of the term was held in Appleton Chapel last evening. It was conducted by the Rev. T. C. Williams, Rev. William Lawrence and Rev. Alexander McKenzie. Rev. E. E. Hale delivered an impressive sermon on the text, "I am the way," after which earnest addresses were ma e by Prof. F. G. Peabody and Rev. Phillips Brooks. Music sung by the chapel choir during the evening added to the interest of the services. The chapel was well filled with students and others...
...Scripture lesson was the close of the Sermon on the Mount...