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Wanted. A Lay Reder at Christs Church. He must be a Communicant in the Episcopal Church. One who can sing (tenor or baritone) especially desired, that he may also assist in the choir, The rector may be consulted further in reference to the position, after any service at the church, or on week-days at the Rectory (13 Follen St.- between 1 and 2 p.m. James F. Spalding...
...those which belong in general to all humanity and constitute the proof marks of its excellence. In every age the member of the body of Christ has seen the great expression of Christ's life, of which he was a part, stand forth sublime and gracious, as mother church. In every time of national peril and preservation the patriot has been able to cry out to his beloved land, standing before him in beautiful distinctness...
...college has been a true person, a very alma mater to her children. The vividness of such personification must be great in proportion to the prominence and distinctness of human life in the institution which thus assumes personality. Not the railroad or the factory, things of machinery, but the church or the college, things of men, stand forth like great human beings and accept their titles when we call them he or she. And just because she has human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does a college most readily and thoroughly...
...charter-periods of New England, and to be the veteran around whom the old-charter men rallied after the deposition of Andros. There was John Cotton, another son of Emmanuel, and what would early Boston have been without him and John Wilson, the leaders of its first church, - Cotton of Lincolnshire, bringing here the saintly memories of Botolph's town, and Wilson, the earliest of the Boston ministers? How much would our own college history have lost had we been without Dunster and Chauncy, our earliest presidents? And what did the saintly grace of the great Apostle to the Indians...
...even entering a suit against one Philip Rogers because he had not paid the ambitious farmer for some grain which had been sold to him. This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford, one morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that altar and have...