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...Jews have been an invincible and independent people. The Hebrew nation brought with them a high sense of their great destiny in the world. The Old Testament is but a part of the product of the Hebrew literature trait. It has been largely neglected for several eras us. People think the Old Testament is antiquated. that it belongs to the dark age. Many do not pretend to be religious, and they consider the Old Testament to be very religious. Then there are men who believe the book is thoroughly right in all particulars and think that it can never...
...Henry S. Nash, of the Cambridge Theological School, addressed the Saint Paul's Society last evening. He said that in this season of the Advent we should think about judgment which is inevitably connected in thought with the second coming of Christ. If one could criticise himself dispassionately and clearly, such judgment would be the same as that of the last day of the world. The trouble is that people try to judge themselves and past generations by the standards which they have made for themselves, and which are, accordingly, sure to be misleading. It is not difficult...
...accident, in my opinion. The seats near the centre of the Harvard side, to the north, where I was, got swaying so badly near the end of the game that everybody left the upper rows. It would have taken very little more to bring the whole thing down-I think another touch-down for Harvard would have done it. The Harvard foot ball management ought to make it their business, if it is not their business already, to see that there shall be no such criminal carelessness in putting up the seats in future...
...yesterday every one could think of little except the brilliant game which Harvard won. Men passed one another with smiles on their faces and near neighbors could not help shaking hands. No one about Cambridge can remember such a day and we have no record of a like. At first sight, all this enthusiasm about a mere foot ball game seems the height of absurdity, and we have no doubt that our actions will be criticised severely by outsiders. But if looked at below the surface, the result of Saturday's game means more than the ordinary athletic victory...
...sermon was a comparison of man and the lower animal. The speaker demonstrated the superiority of the former by his advantages of mind, reason and will; recounted the love of God for man and ended in an appeal to man to think of the things now and to act upon them...