Word: polycarp
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...eloped with Major Crowninshield, and Marcia was not sorry her wedding was postponed, because she too was really in love with the Major. Miltiades went grimly off to war and took orders from the man who had stolen his bride, until Crowninshield was killed at the Battle of Shiloh. Polycarp and Augustus Vaiden were too young to go, but they did not think so. One night they climbed out of the window and ran away to enlist...
Then The Christian Century concluded sardonically: "As one reads this list of inducements, one cannot help wondering what sort of ministerial candidate it will attract. Another Polycarp? Or Athanasius? Or Francis? Or Luther? Or Latimer? Or Wesley? Or Brooks? Would it have caused the closing up of a carpenter shop in Nazareth...