Word: church
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard (1895). His connection with the University has always been close; he has served upon the Board of Preachers and is now a member of the Board of Overseers. As a preacher he has won his wide reputation by his work as pastor of the Old South Church of Boston...
Bishop Brent's address at the University meeting last night was a consideration of the Philippine question from the point of view of an American Christian. The speaker, who has been consecrated Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippine Islands, has never visited the Islands, and so spoke not of the concrete difficulties of his task, but of the general problem to be faced by the nation. The nation, he said, is now in a state of depression over the task before it, a natural reaction from the excitable enthusiasm of a year or two ago. When these...
Next he spoke of the duty of the American Church in the Islands. The natives are a people with Oriental ideas, who cannot be expected to accept at once our Christianity with its distinctly western spirit. The Christian missionaries must be able to get hold of the spirit of the people. The next duty of the Church in the Philippines is to the American population. There are, exclusive of the Army and Navy, about seven or eight thousand Americans in Manila alone, and from them the natives get their ideas of our country. No official promises or reports can have...
...address at the third of the series of University Meetings which will be held in Brooks House this evening at 7.15, will be given by the Right Reverend Charles H. Brent, recently consecrated missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. Bishop Brent is a graduate of Trinity College, Toronto, and the many nominations to important professorships of theology which he has declined show his reputation as a scholar...
...subject of his address this evening will be: "The National Aspect of the Church's Mission to the Philippines...