Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father Cornelius T. Sherlock, Diocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools in Boston: The Reverend Charles W. Gilkey of the Andover Newton Theological School; and Rabbt Maurice L. Zigmond, director of B'uat B'rith Hillel Foundation, discussed the duties of missionaries and religious institutional workers along with the duties and responsibilities of community clergymen...
...discussion of possible careers in religions work of all kinds, including institutional and missionary work, and the duties of a parish priest. Speakers at the meeting will be: The Reverend Charles W. Gilkey, Dean of the University of Chicago Chapel, Emeritus, and now at the Andover-Newton Theological School; Father Cornelius T. Sherlock, Diocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools in Boston; and Rabbi Murico L. Zigmond, Director of B'nal B'rith Hillel Foundation...
...meets at the Missionary Home, Selene Lanark, "all vigor, speed, tautness . . . She was on the tall side, slender, rather tanned: olive-brown of skin with a wonderful smoothness to it ... Her eyes had the tint of black glass . . ." Presently he discovers that Selene is a half-breed, that her father is a rich trader living near Aaron's Mission of Bois des Morts in Minnesota. When he gets there, Aaron finds how much there is to do before he can get to his preaching...
...falls half in love with Huldah Purdick (while Selene is away), argues with a suave Catholic missionary, becomes friendly with Black Wolf, an Oberlin-educated Indian who is trying to convert the whites to the beliefs of the Indians. Finally he flees with Selene from the wrath of her father, becomes a prosperous builder in St. Paul (after marrying Selene), encourages his workmen to go out on strike, and on the eve of the Civil War is somewhat surprised to find himself smuggling runaway slaves as his father had before...
...jacket) how "Martha ... a mere slip of a girl. . . began to learn the things about her husband that so many Southern women in slavery days had to know and bear in silence." Mississippian Kirk McLean is not only "downright fond" of scuppernong wine, he is also the father of at least two quadroons. One day a disgruntled and sulking yellow girl flavors the family tea with a dash of king's yellow, or orpiment, an arsenious pigment. Somebody dies, and the girl is brought to trial...