Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young clergyman - for it would seem that he was in orders, and his association with Emmanuel, the puritan seed-plot, had given a bent to his theological views - soon married Ann Sadler and drawn by those sympathies, we may well believe, which took Cotton and the other Emmanuel men to the New World, he is found before long in the New England Charlestown, where he built a house, which Judge Sewall tells us of, and which seems to have stood till the fire which swept the slopes of that peninsula during the battle of Bunker Hill, levelled...
...students of Maine University, which was founded fifteen years ago mainly through the influence of three clergymen, now enjoy optional prayers. We believe Harvard was founded by a clergyman 250 years...
...whose executive abilities and not his deep learning shall recommend him. Others are in favor of a man of recognized ability as an instructor, and one acquainted with all the most approved educational methods, yet not a man of so-called dangerous conservative ideas; he must not be a clergyman, nor must he be prejudiced against the value of classical training. To satisfy this class the next president must be a sort of compromise between the "conservative" and "progressive" elements. A third faction would choose for the office a representative of the conservative school, above all a Congregational minister. This...
...candidates for the outgoing President's office there are very many. The charter, so ably defended by President Porter, requires the choice of a clergyman, a consideration which bars out such men as ex-President White of Cornell; President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, General Francis A. Walker, and certain members of the faculty whose names have been proposed. True, it would be easy to ordain either of such men as was done in President Woolsey's case, but it is not likely that such a step will be taken. At present, the indications are that the professor of Sacred Literature...
...freshly varnished. Then such students as seem inclined to be restless during the services are ushered to the deceptive seats, and the exercises begin. As the sermon goes on, it is noticed that the students occupying the previously prepared pews begin to assume an anxious expression. This the officiating clergyman considers due to the force of his rhetoric, and his delivery accordingly waxes more eloquent. When the hymn is announced, it is seen that the tenants of the anxious seats in the front row are too deeply affected to rise. The benediction over, however, and the congregation dispersing, the whole...