Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last term of residence among us was an heroic service. His love of the work held him true to every chapel appointment notwithstanding the protracted and dangerous illness of Mrs. Herford at the time. When urged not to feel obliged to hold too strictly to the duties of university pastor during the most serious part of his wife's illness his reply was, "I like to leave a clean edge to my work." The remark deserves to be cherished by every Harvard man as a guiding principle in the performance of his own work...
...term, he attended the Lower Dublin Academy near Philadelphia for a year, and then was apprenticed to an apothecary in New Brunswick for another twelvemonth. In 1839 he entered Harvard and graduated in the class of 1843. In 1845, after two years at the Divinity School, he became pastor of the Unitarian Church in Waltham, where he worked for fourteen years, much be loved by his parishioners. In 1859 he accepted the offer of the presidency of Antioch College in Ohio, to succeed Horace Mann. While president of Antioch he also performed the duties of pastor of the Church...
...meeting of the Y. M. C. A., which was held last night, was addressed by Rev. Mr. Reed, pastor of Hope St. Church, Springfield, and Mr. A. A. Stagg, of Yale. Mr. Reed gave a short sketch of the need of college-bred men for the Y. M. C. A. work of this country. Where in former times there were only two ways for consecrated men to do active and successful work, at present the number of opportunities for special work is almost infinite. And the kind of men needed for this work are men capable of working with...
...thirteen and graduated at fifteen in 1826. After a few years of acting as tutor to a private family, he entered the Harvard Divinity School, and afterwards became instructor in Hebrew and tutor in Mathematics. The year after he left the Divinity School he was ordained pastor of a Second Parish church in Portsmouth, N. H., where he stayed till...
...Farley has spent his life partly in Providence, R. L., and partly in Brooklyn, N. Y., in charge of Unitarian congregations. At present he resides in Brooklyn, where he is pastor emeritus of a Unitarian church. He is the author of several works relating to the church and like matters. His photograph hangs in the college library...