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...team has ever won the championship of the Southwest Conference (Arkansas, Baylor. Rice. Southern Methodist. Texas, Texas A. & M., Texas Christian) two successive years. Out to do it this year. Rice used no more plays and no more players than it needed to run through Creighton...
...caused an unexpected rise in Erie shares. Drew's fall thereafter was rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near his birthplace-Brewster Methodist Episcopal Church, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Daniel Drew Methodist...
Guided in general by sectarian and sectional feeling, the commission put in the favorite hymn of the Methodist Protestants : Take time to be holy, speak oft with thy Lord: Abide in him always, and feed on His Word; Make friends of God's children, help those that arc weak, Forgetting in nothing his blessing to seek...
...favorite hymn of the Southern Methodists: Spirit of faith, come down, reveal the things of God; And make to us the Godhead known, and witness with the blood. 'Tis thine the blood to apply, and give us eyes to see, Who did for every sinner die, hath surely died for me. The favorite Negro Methodist hymn: Joy is a fruit that will not grow In nature's barren soil; All we can boast, till Christ we know, Is vanity and toil...
...from being strictly evangelical, the Methodist hymnal contains a hymn by a Roman Catholic nun named Sister Mary Xavier and a hymn beginning Bless the four corners of this house by Arthur Guiterman, skittish versifier for magazines. It also contains some authentic poetry. Thus, Sidney Lanier: Into the woods my Blaster went, clean forspent, forspent; Into the woods my Master went, forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to him, The little grey leaves were kind to him, The thorn-tree had a mind to him, When into the woods he came...