Word: missions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FREDERICK REED (Harvard 1881), now teaching in Talladge College, Ala., asks for the colored scholars in the mission schools in that region secondhand clothing of all kinds, including rubber boots and waterproof coats. Students and others who are willing to help him can send their address to A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell Place, who will call for the goods and ship them to Alabama...
...city papers asserted that "the Glee Club, as a college organization, is by far the best that has yet been heard in this city; and indeed, was advanced to such a degree of excellence that members of Harvard's old glee clubs, in the days when the mission of a glee club was confined to singing before the halls of Matthews and Holworthy, were astonished at the growth which the club has attained in the days of their successors." The banjo men received their full share of favor...
Time and quiet, however, are needed to complete this work which will require several generations for its accomplishment. It is unlikely that this time will be obtained, for the Turks seem to have no mission in the world, and the powers of Europe think that a Christian government would stimulate the advance of civilization...
...examined all the essays in the New Testament in which Christ is said to have shown anger towards them about Him and that he had found those classes of persons towards whom the anger had been drawn; first, those who endeavored to tempt Him to desert His mission and to put his power to a wrong use; second, those who used hypocrisy and feigned piety as cloaks for iniquity; third, those who wilfully rejected the truth or who prevented it for their own interest. Dr. Fisher discovered in the examples he read of Christ's indignation, a principle that drew...
...young theologians will enter immediately upon their life work, as their fields of usefulness have already been selected. Two of the members will become foreign missionaries, one going to China and the other to India. About a third of the class will go West and enter the home mission field. About thirty-five graduates and seniors will start next week for the West, to engage in home missionary work during their summer vacation of four months...