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Lazy, fantastic Clergyman Fortune leaves St. Fabien parish, whither he has come from a London countinghouse, and journeys to Fanua, an island whose Christian population is even smaller than that of his first missionary situation. At Fanua he succeeds in converting one of the natives, by name, Lueli...
...madman was a clergyman and Conductor, when you receive a fare haunted him all the way to Boston from the moment when "the train started and the car-wheels began their 'clack-clack-clack-clack-clack' ". . . The funeral was a nightmarish medley of blue and buff trip slips for three-cent fares to Heaven...
...getting an education. The road past the McGuffey cabin was thickly carpeted with dust so that Mrs. McGuffey was not interrupted in her prayer by the hoofbeats of a horse that was approaching. Moreover, the dust so muffled the hoofbeats that the horseman, a clergyman who had just founded the Old Stone Academy, could distinctly hear every word Mrs. McGuffey said. Pausing long enough to understand thoroughly, he rode softly off to the next cabin, learned Mrs. McGuffey's name, rode back, answered her prayer...
...finest things of the year. It is a happy fact that subtlety plays no part in Bostonian censorship or the book might be suppressed. Certainly it is more blasting to one's faith than the hearty rant of Mr. Lewis against the clergy; for whereas Lewis attacked one clergyman, Miss Warner, with her satire and her fine cutting humor, gives sharp jabs into every ideal for which any clergyman stands, leaving the reader with the furtive feeling that there is something wrong with civilization and that life would be not only simpler but pleasanter on the sun drenched shores...
...driven 15 persons to their death, a good number by suicide, others by an act of God. A lady in Philadelphia, mildly mad, wrote a pamphlet called The Wedding Night. Brought to justice by Comstock, she chose to exercise what she called Socrates' prerogative. Dr. Karl Reiland, eminent clergyman, wrote to the Roundsman: "You have hunted an honest, not a bad woman to her death. I would not like to have to answer to God for what you have done...