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...four successive subjects designated by him. Dr. Vernon, who was chosen to deliver the lecture this year, is a graduate of Princeton and of the Union Theological Seminary. He has studied in Germany, and for some time was minister of the Dartmouth College Church. Just before accepting the pastorship of the Harvard Congregational Church, he was a professor in the Yale Divinity School. The lecture will be open to the public...
...Ascension, New York. In 1886 he received the degree of A.M. from Harvard, the degree of B.D. from the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge, and the orders of a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church. The following year he was ordained a priest, and after this he held the pastorship of the Church of the Ascension in Fall River, Mass., until in 1893 he succeeded the Rev. E. Winchester Donald as rector of the Church of the Ascension...
...University. He served until Sept. 30, 1868, when he was obliged by illness to resign. He returned to Waltham, which town he represented in the Legislature of 1871. Later he accompanied Professor Louis Agassiz on the coast surveying expedition to South America. On his return he accepted the pastorship of the First Unitarian Church in Portland, Me., and this position he held until his death...
Harper's Weekly has the following in regard to a Harvard graduate: "The Rev. George Gordon of Greenwich, Conn., has been called to the pastorship of the Old South Church, Boston - one of the 'softest,' as it is one of the most historical, pulpits in the United States. The salary is $8000 a year and parsonage. Mr. Gordon is a Scotchman, thirty years old, and unmarried. He worked his way through Harvard, overcoming many obstacles incident to poverty, and graduated with high honors. President Eliot speaks of him as one of the most remarkable graduates for many years...