Word: baptismal
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Some facts, however, have geen gathered. We now know the name and occupation of his father, the parentage, name, and marriages of his mother, the place and date of his baptism, something of his education, his marriage, his emigration to America, his short ministry in Charlestown, his bequest to the infant College, and his early death. Of his brothers and sisters we know the names, and the dates of their deaths. From these a few other matters may safely be inferred; his Puritanism, for example, his feeble health, his interest in learning. Still other matters are conjectured by the author...
...memorial window, which has been made by Mr. John La Farge, is composed of six panels with three tracery pieces dominating them. The three lower openings illustrate the baptism of our Lord by Saint John the Baptist. Beneath this is inscribed: "In memory of John Harvard, founder of Harvard University in America, baptized in this church November 29, 1607." The three upper panels represent the arms and motto of Harvard, arms and motto of England, and the arms of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where John Harvard graduated...
...Lied von der Glocke" is a lay of the life of man, beginning with birth and ending with death, portrayed through the process of bell-making. The bell celebrates the baptism of the representative of human life whose youth, wanderings, love, marriage, prosperity and misfortunes are told in the progress of the poem...
...services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning will be commemorative of the baptism of John Harvard at St. Savior's, Southwark, London. Today is the 297th anniversary, the baptism having taken place on November 29, 1607. His baptism is celebrated as the exact date of his birth is unknown...
...beginning, as at Pentecost, no form of adherence was required: Afterwards some simple form like, "I believe that Jesus is the Son of God," was the condition of baptism. Then the words of our Lord about baptizing in the Name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost became a baptismal confession; and these were drawn out into the creeds which lasted through the Middle Ages. At the Reformation and since, many confessions have been framed, though we all feel, with Harnack, that the time for fresh ones is passed. We have to consider; the value of creeds and confessions, their danger...