Word: clergyman
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...able to provide comfortable circumstances for their pastors. The problem of giving an influential position to a minister is largely analogous to doing the same for a teacher, which has been accomplished to a great extent by state support. This, however, is impossible in the case of a clergyman, because a state religion is forbidden by the Constitution. The benefit which teachers derive from state support is surpassed to no small degree by their support by large endowments, and it is here that we find the key to the problem of the country churches...
...Harvard no fewer than 12 boat clubs in those days. One of these, the "Orion," had for its president Charles W. Eliot '53. In early intercollegiate regattas Harvard was usually the winner, but sometimes the prize even then went to Yale. After one of these defeats the officiating clergyman at morning prayers gave out the hymn by Cowper which ends...
...Conversion" he shows that an apparently helpless and unskilled woman is stronger in an emergency than the power of the sword. "Mrs. Warren's Profession," though known as "immorality dramatized," is really an enquiry into the self-complacency of modern society. "Candida" is a criticism of a modern socialist clergyman who is a good preacher, a good man, and surrounded by goodness, but lacks reality, and the power of accomplishing good...
...DIVINITY CLUB. "The Relation of the Clergyman to Philosophical Study." Professor Royce. Divinity Hall...
...DIVINITY CLUB. "The Relation of the Clergyman to Philosophical Study." Professor Royce. Divinity Hall...