- Collection:
- Columbia Theological Seminary Manuscript Collection
- Title:
- Baccalaureate Sermon, 1872
- Creator:
- Waddel, John N. (John Newton), 1812-1895
- Date of Original:
- 1872
- Subject:
- Labor--Religious aspects
Presbyterians--Mississippi
Work--Religious aspects
Bible--Ecclesiastes--Sermons
Waddel, John N. (John Newton), 1812-1895--Sermons
Presbyterian Church in the U.S--Sermons--19th century
Presbyterian Church in the U.S--Theology
University of Mississippi
Mississippi
Southern States - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- manuscripts (documents)
sermons - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Baccalaureate sermon written by John N. Waddel, presumably delivered at the Unversity of Mississippi, 1872. Waddel posits that "the law of all life is work, the purpose of all animated beings is labor" and that, for lazy men who want more slumber, there is an even greater slumber waiting: the sleep of spiritual death. He then retells the life of Solomon as example and describes in depth four lessons to be learned from it: for every man there is his appointed and appropriate work, this work must be done earnestly, our morality furnishes an argument for immediate earnestness, and that the utter cessation of opportunity for work in the grave is another argument to enforce Solomon's exhortation "whatsoever". Sermon on Ecclesiastes 9:10.
Institution: C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives, John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary - Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17323coll7/id/5488
- IIIF manifest:
- https://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p17323coll7:5488/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 62 pages
- Original Collection:
- John Newton Waddel papers, circa 1792-1901
- Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
