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Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion

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Mornings in the College Chapel

SHORT ADDRESSES TO YOUNG MEN ON PERSONAL RELIGION BY FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY, PLUMMER PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN MORALS IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

By FRANCIS G. PEABODY.

TO

MY BELOVED AND REVERED COLLEAGUES

THE PREACHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY

AND TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF

PHILLIPS BROOKS

OF THE FIRST STAFF OF PREACHERS

WHO BEING DEAD YET SPEAKETH AMONG US

IN GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OF

HAPPY ASSOCIATION IN THE SERVICE OF

CHRIST AND THE CHURCH

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In the conduct of morning prayers at Harvard University, the Preachersto the University usually say a few plain words to interpret or enforcethe Bible lesson which has been read. The entire service is butfifteen minutes long, so that this little address must occupy not morethan two or three minutes, and can at the best indicate only a singlewholesome thought with which a young man may begin his day. It hasbeen suggested to me that some of these informal and brief addresses,if printed, may continue to be of interest to those who heard them, ormay perhaps be of use to other young people in like conditions of life;and I have therefore tried to recall some of these mornings in theCollege Chapel.

It is now ten years since it was determined that religion in ourUniversity should be regarded no longer as a part of Collegediscipline, but as a natural and rational opportunity offering itselfto the life of youth. It was a momentous transition, undertaken withthe profoundest sense of its seriousness and significance. It was anact of faith,—of faith in religion and of faith in young men. TheUniversity announced the belief that religion, rationally presented,will always have for healthy-minded young men a commanding interest.This faith has been abundantly justified. There has become familiaramong us, through the devotion of successive staffs of Preachers, aclearer sense of the simplicity and reality of religion, which, formany young men, has enriched the meaning of University life. No onewho has had the slightest part in administering such a work can sum upits present issues without feeling on the one hand a deep sense ofpersonal insufficiency, and on the other hand a large and solemn hope.

I have indicated such sources of suggestion for these addresses as Inoted at the time of their delivery, but it may well be that some suchindebtedness remains, against my will, unacknowledged.

CAMBRIDGE, October, 1896.

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I. THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO, BUT TO MINISTER . . 4 III. THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER . . . . . . . . . . 7 IV. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 V. THE CENTURION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 VI. SPIRITUAL ATHLETICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 VII. THE RHYTHM OF LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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