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Tonight at 8 o'clock in Sever 11 Professor Emerton will deliver the third anniversary lecture in the Dudleian series, on the subject, "The Romish Church." This lecture is one of a course of four, given, one each year, on topics of religion...
...Judge Paul Dudley left Harvard a sum of money to provide for an annual lecture on four given subjects, to be taken in turn. The lecture this year was to be "for the detecting and conviction and exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpation, damnable baseness, fatal errors, abomnible superstitions and other crying wickedness in their high places," as expressed in Judge Dudley's will...
...Arizona Bishop Kendrick has to deal with Mexicans, who inherit the Romish church from the Spaniards; with the Indians, who were greatly in need of education; and with the English people who are also in need of missionary work. He urged Harvard men to join in the work in the West...
...genuine "no popery riot" has occurred at Oxford. The facts are these: On a Saturday night near the end of February, a dignified emissary of the papal court, and the accredited representative of the Romish propaganda of the university, Mr. Grissell, who is a graduate of Brasenose, and is said to have been making converts in that college, visited the rooms of his prospective followers, and had just seated himself for "a quiet rubber" with a few men from other colleges, when they were serenaded by a large portion of the college in the quadrangle below, amid cries...