Word: communion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Christ Church, 7.30 a. m. (Holy Communion), 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m., Rev. James F. Spalding...
...native language of his soul. No celebration of any kind is complete without it. No matter upon what solemn occasion a Teuton enters, no matter how exalted the emotions which flood his soul or how abstruse the speculations which engage his thoughts, he must be sustained throughout by constant communion with his froth-crowned schooner...
...campaigns of the Civil war, and it was given with such grace and ease, combined with thorough knowledge of the situation, that the attention of the audience was kept at a high degree of interest. Many amusing incidents and patriotic references were cited, which kept the audience in pleasant communion with the speaker. Major Hotchkiss began by stating that there are three things in a campaign that are important. 1. The topography of the field of action. 2. Purposes of campaign. 3. The results. The first was carefully shown upon the blackboard, and the latter two were so ably discussed...
...There is, however, really no more impropriety in compelling an irreverent young man to take the communion, no matter what he may think or feel about it, than to attend daily public prayers. The former is, undoubtedly, more shocking in its external aspect, but both are acts of worship, and to anybody who remembers what religious people consider worship to be, there can be no difference worth mention, between compulsory performance in one case, and in the other. Compulsory communion has long been given up in England, both for young and old, and people look back on it, now, with...
...death of Professor Sophocles, who, in personal appearance and habits, was a veritable type of the antique. Gray and hirsute, his dark complexion and piercing eyes gave him a weird aspect, and he passed his days and nights in one corner of a college dormitory in lone communion with the spiders which he was wont to feed and cherish, and the tomes in which the lore of old Hellas was entombed, many of whose graces and beauties were visible to no eye within the academic shades as they were to his. Reserved and uncommunicative as a recluse...