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Show " " ' X r - - ' .- J . V . . J h I . J 1 V w CHICAGO., llay The one hundredth, hun-dredth, anniversary of the birth of r..-.'; hT,';.!Jj .rson to'iy was male the occasion cf many sermons by Chi cc.z pastors on the phllesoiher. At All Souls church last nlht Emerson, wai the subject cf five addresses, Jenkln Lloyd Jones presiding. Emerson was the theme at other churches during the flay. "When he wrote, .drops of light fell from his pen. When he spoke, vast horizons began to glow as at daybreak," day-break," said Dr. Camden M. Cobern. la St. James Methodist church. Just to see him for an hour -was to get sudden knowledge of what he was and of what you might be." "I never felt so conscious of my ability abil-ity to tell my people what is in my heart as today, when I am to speak of the Influence of this great man," said Dr. J A. Qansaulus. "Everybody these days quotes Emerson without even knowing it. There Is no such echo of Jesus In this new century as that which comes through him." The Emerson centennial will be celebrated cele-brated at the University of Chicago this afternoon with a meeting in Kent theater under the auspices of the departments de-partments of English and philosophy. |