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...deep and steady interest in public affairs and his faithful discharge of civic duties. He had a most humane and kindly heart; he was active in many local charities and waf a constant and liberal giver to the poor. He was a steadfast friend and a helpful counsellor to everyone in doubt or trouble. The daily record of his life would be a record of kind deeds no less than of laborious study and exemplary performance of duty...
...only did his impressive sermons attract the students to the chapel, but his overflowing kindness drew them to his home. He was pastor as well as preacher The students felt that in him they had a friend and counsellor in whom they might confide and trust implicitly. Dr. Peabody was the most popular instructor of the college, and the cheers for him at class-day were always the heartiest and the longest of the occasion. Indeed even to the present time, classes whose members had never been under his instruction still cheered for the venerable doctor...
Resolve, That in the death of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks D. D., we have lost an earnest helper, a devoted counsellor, and an affectionate friend, endeared to us as to all who knew him, by his large and kindly nature; that his deep interest in our welfare from the beginning will always be gratefully remembered by the Society; that, although his loss is irreparable, he has left to us a noble example. Be it further...
...management of the nine is greatly to be desir d. With all respect for Mr. Smith and Mr. Thayer, who have watched the practice for a few weeks, it is confidently believed by alarge proportion of the upper-classmen who take an interest in the nine that our wisest counsellor and best manager of ball players ought to be consulted. Last year Captain Linn trusted entirely to his advice, and he freely gives to this experienced graduate all credit for the excellent showing which the '90 nine made against one of the best teams that Yale ever had. Whether...
...given us by the recent Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries. Isaiah lived in that period of the Assyrian invasion of Palestine, and was a contemporary of four Assyrian kings. He lived at the court of Jerusalem during most of his life, filling the positions of court preacher, physician and counsellor. Isaiah was a determined opponent of all foreign alliances, and even when Sennacherib was besieging Jerusalem was, unwilling to call upon Egypt for assistance. He advised the people to put their trust in "Javeh," who would deliver them from their danger. Actually, the Assyrian King met with some disaster which forced...