Word: reverende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reverend John W. McNeil of the Grace Congregational Church said that Pusey has exemplified that we can weed out and remove Communists yet still "maintain that freedom which is as precious to the genius of America as breathing...
...accused of practicing what he preached against. "On the night of July 3, 1870,'' writes Author Robert Shaplen. "Elizabeth Richards Tilton, a small, dark-haired woman of 35, the mother of four children, confessed to her husband, Theodore, that she had committed adultery with her pastor, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher...
...Duke's successor: the Very Reverend Thomas Chappell, 48, popular Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Stephen in Harrisburg, Pa. A Hotchkiss boy himself (class of '24), Dean Chappell graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, later went on to the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. His plans for Hotchkiss are, in a sense, ambitious. They are nothing less than to give the sort of spiritual and intellectual education long provided under The Duke-a training in 'the habitual contemplation of greatness" for the production of men "sensitive to the good, competent, imaginative, ready...
...Yoknapatawpha County characters and their stories. The great-grandfather was the living model for Colonel John Sartoris, one of the central figures in the Jefferson Sags, and in the figure of Faulkner himself, painfully dedicated to the labor of reproducing this family legend, lies a clue to the Reverend High tower of Light in August and the obsession with ancestral heroism which he carried with him even to the pulpit...
...that the Canon of Winchester wrote in the British weekly Time & Tide, "Our Lord . . . specifically ordered us to pray for and to heal the sick. But about the weather He had nothing to say. He simply accepted it." I do hope that before his face becomes too red the Reverend Canon reads Matthew 8:24-27* and reconsiders his statement that Our Lord "had nothing to say" about the weather...