Amherst Alpha Delta Phi. 1837-1887

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... together, is a fine looking face always. You take the general run of ministers as you will see them gathered together in a large room, and the solid, substantial element will be the Congregational and Presbyterian. The Episcopalian comes in for ornament--a very handsome ornament, too--and the Baptists and Methodists for vigorous action. Now, in describing this ideal man, the Alpha Delta Phi in the Pulpit, the first distinguishing characteristic--for no other fraternity can say we do not lead in one remarkable particular--is that he is Apostolic. When this topic was sent me a few days ago with the request for a brief address, I immediately took down my Greek concordance and ran over the allusions to Alpha Delta Phi in the New Testament, and I found precisely 424 distinct references, with the names of quite a number of the brothers. The very first disciple who was called by our Lord to lead the glorious company of His disciples to the end of time is definitely described in the first chapter of the fourth gospel, as Alpha Delta Phi dSeA.p Simon Peter. Consult your Greek Testament and you will find it there. The man who first, led Simon into the presence of the Master, was also an AStXcp named Andrew. The two sons of Zebedee, John and James, are both definitely called ASekrp. Look up the old Greek Testament--good reading occasionally for lawyers and teachers as well as ministers--and you will find abundant illustrations. One case is quite remarkable. When Saul of Tarsus saw a light from heaven and was arrested on his persecuting career at Damascus, and when he needed one word instantly to arouse, cheer and start him on his upward path, a man named Ananias was the elect instrument to speak that word, and this was the word: ASfq, Saul, ...