Word: children
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wednesday.Divinity School Conference. Children's Churches. Mr. A. B. Ellis. Divinity Chapel...
...lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down to a perfectly harmless piece of folly they magnify it to an outrage and still call us children. Considering the character of the trick, I cannot imagine that it should have been conceived in any spirit but that of harmless fun-a spirit which seldom enough gets the better of our dignity. If an insult were intended to Professor Wendell surely something would have been done which would have...
...Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands of the Arabians and the Philistines, himself died wretchedly from a lingering sickness which consumed his bowels. His fearful death did not prevent Ahaziah from imitating his impiety and that of Athaliah his mother. But this prince, atter a reign...
...class of '85, the director of the Committee, at his weekly conferences in Grays 17, and under his guidance have taken up the work best suited to their needs and future careers. The men have undertaken service for the Associated Charities of Boston, the Home Libraries of the Boston Children's Aid Society, the Society for Home Savings, the North End Union, the Italian Mission, the Parker Memorial, the Newsboys' Reading Room and Boys' Club, the Boston Truant School, and the State Reform School for Boys...
...trouble and with characteristic determination stuck to his work until November. In creasing weakness, however, compelled him to relinquish work and to go to Colorado Springs. For some time he seemed to be gaining satisfactorily, but from about Christmas time he failed rapidly. His wife and three children survive...