Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecturers in the Yale Theological School for next year will be: Dr. Broadus, Lyman Beecher lecturer on "The Preacher;" Dr. John Hall, on "Universality of the Gospel;" General Armstrong, of Hampton, on "The Negro Race." It is expected that the incoming class will be very large...
...Williston Seminary, where he fitted for Amherst, entering in the class of 1885; subsequently he left Amherst to take the degree S. B. from Boston University in 1885. He was chosen by the students of the school to preach the Christmas sermon last December; he was a very promising preacher, beloved by his fellow students and by all with whom he had come in contact. While he was without relatives, he had many very dear friends who mourn their loss...
...prayer, by keeping our souls open to influences coming from above. We can shield ourselves in the compassionate love of God, whose power can turn aside the insidious as well as the open attacks of evil. The sermon was very impressive, particularly in the part in which the preacher described the power of the presence of God. The music sung by the choir included the familiar anthems: "I will always give thanks," by Calkin and "Enter not into Judgment," by Attwood, with the beautiful hymn, "Now the day is over...
...Harvard Reminiscences" is the forthcoming book by the Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, Preacher to the University, and one of the best-beloved and venerated men in America. For a quarter of a century he has been a higher officer in the college, and it is two-thirds of a century since he first became connected with Harvard-first as a student and then as tutor. The book includes bright little monographs on scores of the college officers of the last half century or more, such men as Felton, Palfrey, Kirkland, Clarke, Hedge and Norton, besides many less well known...
...that the front pews at vesper services are reserved for students and for friends accompanying them. At the last services the rear of the chapel was crowded and students stood throughout, while two or three pews at the front were vacant. It would certainly be more agreeable to the preacher and make the service more impressive if the students would sit together in the pews which are kept for them...