Word: clergyman
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...than the former canon on marriage, and endeavor to "make for happy marriages by teaching the young the meaning of married life." For those who did not have this opportunity, Professor Beale would require a signed certificate that each party had discussed the meaning of marriage with an Episcopalian clergyman before the final ceremony. In these ways he is endeavoring to minimize the possibility of divorce...
...remedy this present defect, Professor Beale would require couples contemplating divorce to "go before a clergyman, giving him the opportunity to show them how to smooth over their difficulties." If this fails, the professor would have the case brought before an Episcopal bishop, who should decide "by the facts of the case, and not by any set rule," whether to allow the couple to separate and remarry under the sanction of the church...
...Noble lectures were founded in 1897 by Mrs. W. B. Noble in memory of her husband, who was an Episcopal clergyman. Her purpose in establishing the fund for these lectures was to continue the mission of her husband as a minister, and to arouse the interest of Harvard students in the Christian ministry...
...clergyman or other minister of any religion shall not, without the consent of the party making the confession, be allowed to disclose a confession made to him in his professional character, in the course of discipline enjoined by the rules or practice of the religious body to which he belongs...
Quincian forbears were not so tolerant as Quincians of today, and on this idea hangs the Stokes plot, details of which were revealed last week. The hero is Wrestling Bradford, a young Puritan clergyman darkly obsessed with the beauty of Lady Marigold, fiancee of gay Sir Gower Lackland. While Wrestling is wrestling with his soul, Sir Gower and his sinful kind are having one of their maypole dances on Merry Mount. Later Sir Gower is killed outright by a Puritan. The village is attacked by Indians and the love-distracted Wrestling accuses Lady Marigold of witchcraft. As she is about...