Word: church
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Would you favor granting a petition that church attendance on Sunday be left (a) purely voluntary, or (b) subject to parental control...
...your second inquiry, about Sabbath attendance at church, I should desire the fuller light that I should have to get, were I elected an overseer, from my associates, before finally making up my mind. Everything, or rather many things, have changed greatly since I was an undergraduate-the age of students among them...
...opinions as a candidate of the board of overseers of Harvard University. I can only say in reply that I have always believed that it would be better in every way that attendance on moring prayers at Harvrd should be voluntary; and that the question of attendance at church on Sunday is one which could be most fitly and safely entrusted to the decision of the parents or guardians of each student...
...Resaca. Here a battle was fought and the enemy was again outflanked. Alatoona was Johnston's next stopping place. This also proved too strong for Sherman to attack and he marched away, suddenly reappearing in the rear of his adversary. In making this move the battle of New Hope Church was fought without results. Then comes days of fighting back and forth and of making breastworks. But all was of no avail to the Southerners, who again fell back to Kensaw Mountain. This, by previous labor, had been made a regular fortress. Sherman, to encourage his troops, made an assault...
...James Russell Lowell, on Tuesday last performed the ceremony of unveiling the tablet erected in St. Olave's church, London, in honor of Samuel Pepys...