Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jonathan Edwards and wife of the Rev. Aaron Burr, President of the College of New Jersey (Princeton), was unexpectedly delivered of her second child, a son, christened Aaron. The child was son, grandson, great-grandson, great-great-grandson of clergymen on both sides of his family...
...addressing the Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Rector for the last quarter-century of St. Thomas' Church, Manhattan, who knelt before him, pale and grave. In the chancel stood 35 bishops; 430 clergymen were ranked in files in the nave; hundreds of wealthy laymen were packed shoulder to shoulder in those stalls not reserved for the ordained. Already Dr. Stires had received a magnificent Bible from Mrs. George Hardwick, his 80-year old mother-in-law; already 80 of his admiring colleagues had presented him with an amethyst ring; already the great procession -so long that the processional hymn...
Nevertheless, faith healing has become so much the mode in Britain that last week the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed the Bishop of Southwark to preside over a council of six celebrated doctors and six clergymen to advise the Church "on all matters related to spiritual healing and healing missions." In this step some people thought they perceived a formal recognition of spiritual healing. Medicos, clerics, were asked for their opinions...
...sisters in Nebraska. The bulk of his estate (about $100,000) he left to the county for the erection of a school gymnasium and playground. The town was shocked. The Negro's body was carried to the Court House and a public funeral was held. Three clergymen-Presbyterian, Methodist, Roman Catholic -spoke over his body...
...pleasure even now," he continued, "to remember the production by this club of 'Beranger' and the wild play of Don Passos, 'The Moon is a Gong', which was fascinating by reason of its very wildness. We still can see the mourners and clergymen wearing masks as they came into the house where the corpse was lying, entering to the tunes played by a jazz orchestra...