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...preached at Appleton Chapel last night from the text, "He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel," taken from the one hundred and third psalm. He said God has revealed himself to men by acts and not by words. People seem usually to think that the way God has revealed himself to us is by causing the Bible to be written, and thus many think that the Bible came directly from God, is divine, and is therefore infallible. Truly the Bible is God's word and was certainly inspired...
...said that there was much confusion in the popular idea of orders. Many persons think that different styles are different orders, while in reality the orders are only various expressions of the same style. There are only three distinct orders,- the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian. All others are variations of these. The variations are endless in number and admit of as great changes as any one can desire. The restrictions are not in any sense bonds, but have really done more to bring about variety of design than to limit...
...Protestant Reformation marked a change. Men began to think and reason. A division of the sects followed and every one was permitted to have a belief of his own, suited to his own needs. If he lived up to it, he fulfilled all the requirements of a religion. The same thing is true at the present day. One should put his belief to the test at times, to see if it satisfies his ideas. Religious truth is unlike all other truths. A mathematical truth is proved by a set of fixed rules. Legal or historical truths are governed only...
...think the spirit which the Religious Union has shown in securing a lecturer on this subject is highly commendable. The Union aims, above all things, to be marked by a broad tolerance, and to draw to it men of all religious creeds. Nothing could illustrate their spirit better than this present action...
...fallacy to think that football men are bruisers. They are chosen for their pluck, energy and courage, and these requisites are more often found in the more intellectual and gentlemanly students than among the brutal ones. Gill and Cowan, who were perhaps the most famous tackles who ever played football, were both ministers, and four out of the last six captains at Yale have been in good standing in the University and prominent...