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...Professor George Harris, of Andover, conducted the service in Appleton chapel last evening. He chose as the text of his sermon John vs 17; "But Jesus answered them, My Father worked even until now, and I work." In these words Jesus justified himself for healing the lame man on the Sabbath. He had a flash of insight into the purpose of God, and understood that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. But His words have a larger significance than this. They show how deeply conscious Jesus was of God's working everywhere in the world...
...President Andrews of Brown University conducted the service in Appleton Chapel yesterday evening He took as the text for his address Psalm 107, 8th verse, "Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men." It seem unnatural the preacher said, that men should need to be exhorted to gratitude to God. Yet many devotedly pious people, while they feel the duty of gratitude, are certainly not spontaneously grateful. This is largely due to a wrong method of looking at puzzling questions of belief. Dr. Andrews then considered some...
...Princeton football management has made a statement regarding the Princeton eleven. It contains a certificate of the faculty that every member of the eleven is an undergraduate pursuing a regular course of study in the college. The full text of the statement is as follows: The Princeton university foot ball management desires to make public the following official statement in regard to the members of the eleven which played Harvard upon November 16 and will meet Yale on November 28, first, as to their college standing; second, as to their receiving pecuniary compensation...
...audience which assembled to hear Rev. Phillips Brooks in Appleton Chapel last night filled it to overflowing. The preacher's text was from John vii. 27, "Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh no man knoweth whence he is." The problem of man's life said Dr. Brooks, is to find and keep the proper proportion between the mystical and the practical. The complete religion when perfectly revealed, must satisfy both sides of man's nature. The close association of Christ with life does not degrade Christ, but elevates life, because He is the stronger...
...opened by the singing of J. K. Paine's "Commemoration Hymn," by the boy choir and the 'Varsity Glee club. This was followed by a prayer by Rev. Francis Peabody, after which Saint Saens' "Ave Verum" was sung. Rev. Lyman Abbott then delivered a short address taking for his text the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. The preacher drew a vivid picture of Christ's temptation by Satan and urged that Christ's example of fortitude be followed by every student. He declared that vanity and ambition were two faults especially to be avoided by students in a large...