Word: churches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WILLIAM EVERETT will deliver, next Sunday, at the Rev. Mr. Lothrop's church, corner Arlington Street and Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, the sermon which was preached last Sunday at King's Chapel...
...recent defeat of the Ministry in England is something more than the regular political seesaw which is usually kept up by the two parties. In it we see an evidence of the steady growth, in England as well as America, of the Roman Catholic Church; though, twenty years ago, few would have expected to see two such anomalies as the Romanists supporting the conservative government in England, and leading the ultra-radical movement in New York. But it has often been the policy of that church to make the means subservient to the end; and we need feel no surprise...
...altered Chapel was found to seat as many persons as the church of the First Parish, the exercises of Class Day and Commencement were held last June in the Chapel instead of in the church. Then disappeared the last trace of the official connection between the College and the First Parish, - a connection which had been maintained in various forms for more than two hundred years." - President's Report...
...useful on the farm, and is never too young to work. He drives the cows to pasture, weeds the garden, etc. Thus, even supposing that he is sent to school during the few winter months, from the time he partakes of his first communion, (and in the Roman Catholic Church this takes place at the age of ten or eleven,) he is finally withdrawn from school. The little he knows is now forgotten; for the peasant, once having left school, writes or reads no more. He has a natural horror of books and paper. He looks back upon his school...
...hunger. Consequently, capable men are not found in the corps of instructors. In regard to others, they are obliged, in order to live to take up other employments outside of their school. Thus they become frequently secretaries of the mayor, and on Sunday sing in the church. They are, therefore, under the surveillance of the mayor and dependent upon the cure. But what is still worse, the instruction itself is wholly at the discretion and subject to the approbation of the cure and the bishop. Schools are in such a manner dependent on the Church, that they are scarcely more...