Word: christian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christian Brethren Meeting. Stoughtone...
...annual convention of the intercollegiate branches of the Young Men's Christian Association is to meet this year at Cambridge. The Christian Brethren, although not strictly a branch of the association, will act as hosts, and do the honors of the occasion. The dates of the convention are February 20, 21 and 22. The Christian Brethren expect that fully one hundred delegates will respond to their invitation, coming principally from the following colleges: twenty-five from Yale, twelve from Amherst, and the remainder from the other colleges and academies which have branches of the society among their students...
...college branches. Sunday afternoon, the 22d, there will be another meeting, when the Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D., of Boston, will address the convention, and a discussion will follow. On Sunday evening the final meeting will be held to hear several gentlemen speak who are prominently connected with Christian Association work, and the convention will then be brought to a close. It was hoped that Messrs. Moody and Sayford would be present, but other engagements will prevent them from attending. A full programme of each day's proceedings will be published on convention week...
...Stoughton 18, meeting of the Society of Christian Brethren...
President White of Cornell. says "The most devoted Christian men here, as in many other institutions of learning, saw reason to believe that the usual forced attendance upon morning college prayers was of very doubtful utility. To huddle into a cheerless room a great mass of students just hurried from their breakfasts, with minds intent upon the recitation of the next hour, is certainly a very doubtful way of inducting young men into the beauty of holiness...