Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...value of his long and well-spent life among us here, it is eminently proper that a tribute should be paid. We feel assured that we express the sentiments of the entire College when we affirm our lasting regret for the necessity of losing so faithful a pastor, so warm a friend. The best wishes and sympathies of all who have ever known him will follow Dr. Peabody in his retirement to private life...
...dollars. It was understood that he received funds from wealthy friends for such aid to needy scholars. It now turns out, however, that by far the largest amount of these funds was given to Professor Peabody - by Professor Peabody himself; in other words, that with the departure of our pastor from the College, it loses one of its most effectual benefactors. Greatly as we respect the modesty of Dr. Peabody, we deem it our duty to show how great is the loss the College sustains in his resignation...
...front of Miltiades and Son's drug-store - broken and extinguished. Mr. O'Phlynn hastened at once in the opposite direction to ascertain if any of the miscreants were approaching from that quarter, but met no one, with the exception of the Rev. James W. Agesilaus, Pastor of the St. Poseidon Baptist Church on West OEdipus Street, whom he arrested on suspicion; but he was afterwards discharged, Maj. Gen. Benj. F. Nicias becoming his bondsman...
...melodrama, will be given to-night and to-morrow. The plot turns upon the contest between the mother (Miss Prescott) and her step-daughter (Miss Wainwright) for the affections of Fernand, the former lover of the mother. Louis James acts the part of Fernand very well. Next week, Tony Pastor's new Burlesque Company. May 31, Birch and Backus' San Francisco Minstrels, for one week...
...abhorred the theatre; for he had frequently heard his good pastor (who had never been inside one in his life, and so was a very competent judge) say that the Devil lurked behind the scenes. Percy had no desire to encounter that gentleman prematurely, and stayed away. Billiard-rooms and Carl's were anathema maranatha, and he refused to go to athletic meetings, because he had heard that the horrid sin of betting was prevalent at them. He frequently lectured his classmates on their immorality, and even wrote of their wickedness to the Herald. But, instead of being looked...