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...Robert Collyer of New York spoke last night on a text from Isaiah 38: viii.- "Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward." Hezekiah, king of Israel was very sick and being warned by Isaiah that he was going to die prayed to the Lord for his life. He recovered. He had thought all his work was done, his sun had almost set; when suddenly the shadow on the dial began to creep backward, he regained a portion of his youthful strength and he finds...
Bonds in railroad affairs represent conservatism, while stocks represent enterprise. The two great aims of the railroad reformer is how to allow each of these two farces, conservatism and enterprise to assume their relative positions in the best manner possible. The speaker then spoke of the building of the Wisconsin Central road to Lake Superior by eastern capitalists some years ago, their large bonded debt, the attempt of a few of the largest stockholders to depreciate the value of the stock and buy it up at their own price, and their failure. Mr. Abbot thought too that a railroad foreclosure...
...conclusion Mr. Abbot spoke of the Wisconsin Central scheme as a model one and expressed his approbation of a responsible standing committee as the governing power of a railroad corporatlon. With such a governing power, it would be impossible for a few men either rapidly to assume control of a road or to wreck...
Professor C. C. Everett spoke last evening at Appleton Chapel on the tones of mind which may be called cosmopolitan and provincial. The person who lives in the city is so used to a crowd that he is free from all selfconsciousness of manner, so used to the sight of misery that he is callous to it, so used to vice that he ignores it. This kind of man may make a good historian or a good philosopher because he has a perfectly fair frame of mind. Provincial people on the other hand are unused to the jar and noise...
Professor Toy then spoke of the intense nationality of Jewish life, of the difference which existed between the Jewish and Mohammedan, the Mohammedan and Christian religions. In conclusion he said that that Monotheism has always been symbolical of advancing thought and high conceptions of the deity, for it has for its fundamental truth that there...