Word: calvinists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Business. Andover's founder was Samuel Phillips Jr., a good Calvinist who began to worry about the country's "decay of virtue, public and private" around the time he nearly blew himself up making powder for the Continental Army. To head off decay, the 26-year-old Phillips got his father and uncle to give cash for a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, and those Sciences wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
...site of the grave. "Cry, you bitch, cry." Mrs. Baines obliges, while Wrinifred claws hysterically at the grave. But the rest of the week Mrs. Baines rules the household. She brutally orders her Milquetoast husband about, refuses to be in the same room with Winifred. A bad case of Calvinist repression, will-less Joshua cannot even bring himself to say "I want." His only solace is the Bible and the thought of death. Mrs. Baines consoles him: "Think of a day when you're nothing, Mr. Baines. Nothing...
...nine. He had made a good living painting fancywork on carriages and buggies. But he left little. The family lived in the section called "Beantown," where thrifty immigrants grew beans instead of flowers. Dirksen's mother, a hardy woman who had helped build the wood-frame Second Reformed (Calvinist) Church with her own hands, set her boys to work. On their 1½ acres, they grew berries, lettuce, radishes, turnips and onions. They had cows, hogs, chickens and 15 stands of bees. Ev delivered milk to customers, sold eggs and vegetables. "There was a certain ruggedness about life...
...provide former priests with free food, clothing, lodging, and a quiet room for study. After six or eight weeks, Hegger will arrange for his clients to live with sympathetic Dutch families. Hegger believes that his own experience should help him guide others through their spiritual crisis, and as a Calvinist he hopes to convince them that his own church represents the answer to their spiritual needs. Only two kinds of ex-priests are barred from the Wartburg: converts to Communism, and clerics who are wanted by the police on criminal charges...
Returning to The Netherlands, Hegger studied at the Calvinist Free University in Amsterdam, incorporated a foundation for ex-priests called "On Straight Street. '' * began publishing a monthly magazine that now claims a circulation of 13,000. He married a woman he met a year after quitting the church, and began using their home as a temporary haven for ex-clergy...