Word: pastorate
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Samuel McC. Crothers, D.D., hon. '99, will officiate at the ninth Vesper service of the year, to be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Dr. Crothers is pastor of the First Parish Unitarian Church in Cambridge and preacher to the University. The musical program will be as follows: "Poriti autom," Mendelssohn; "The day is past and over," Reed; aria from oratorio "The Prodigal Son," Sullivan. The soloist will be Mr. George Deane...
...Denison, Pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Boston, will address a general meeting of the Christian Association in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. The subject of his address will be "Religious Work in the Neglected Districts," and will have special reference to settlements and summer recreation places in connection with the work in the slums of New York...
...Dudleian lecture for the current academic year will be given on Wednesday, February 12, by the Rev. George A. Gordon '81, pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, on "The Nature of Revelation." The general subject upon which the lecture is based is the second of the series of four subjects prescribed in 1750 by the founder of the lectureship, Judge Paul Dudley, of the class of 1690, namely: "The confirmation, illustration and improvement of the great articles of the Christian religion properly so-called, or the revelation which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was pleased to make, first...
...received from Frederick W. Story '73, of Baltimore, a little volume of early sermons of the eighteenth century, prefixed to which is a pamphlet of the greatest rarity. This is Cotton Mather's "Poem Dedicated to the Memory of the Reverend and Excellent Mr. Urian Oakes, the late Pastor of Christ's Flock, and President of Harvard College, in Cambridge. Boston in New-England, printed for John Ratcliff, 1682." This is thought to be Cotton Mather's earliest publication, written when he was nineteen years old, and only one other copy of it has ever come to light. That copy...
John Harvard was admitted a member of the church on November 6, 1637, and a short time afterward he was made its pastor. There are few records of his ministry, except that he preached and prayed with evidences of strong feeling and affection, and that "his own heart was delighted with his ministrations." He was given the Charlestown parish in 1637, but remained pastor of the church a little less than a year, for he died on the 14th of September, 1638. The church in which he preached stood on the west side of what is now City square...