Word: saviour
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stories in height, with wings on either side rising four stories. The architicture of the structure is modernized Romanesque. An arcade corridor extends from the north to the south end of the lower floor of the buildidg and the areade entrance is surmounted with a marble statue of the Saviour. On either side of the main entrance are the two receiving parlors. For one of these Bishop Keane, the rector, has already received a magnificent painting of Pope Leo XIII. The large public hall in which lectures will be given from time to time by distinguished Catholics, is situated...
...choir sang the following selections: Lead Kindly Light, by Sullivan; O Give Thanks, by Jackson; Saviour, When night involves the sky, by Shelley...
...made by Rev. William Lawrence. The speaker read from the Bible the account of Peter's attempt to persuade his Master not to go to Jerusalem and of Christ's answer to the tempter. Peter, the speaker said, had been the first to realize the meaning of the Saviour's mission, but when the time came for self-denial and for action the disciple hesitated. So in the world to-day, men of every station have their ideals, but when they find between them and the fulfilment of these ideals long years of drudgery and self-sacrifice, they hold back...
...singing of the choir was unusually good, and formed a very attractive part of the service. The anthems were: "Saviour, when night covers the skies," by Shelley; "And they rest not day and night," by Tuckerman, and "There is sprung up a light," by Armes...
...students and visitors present at vespers last evening. After Dr. F. G. Peabody made the introductory prayer, the cxxxviii. Psalm was read by the congregation. Dr. Phillips Brooks spoke very feelingly of the incident of Christ in the wilderness. He said it was at this time that the Saviour of men first recognized in himself that inherent power of resisting evil which He observed other men did not possess. The speaker cautioned his hearers to beware of turning the powers they did possess to base ends, but to devote them to the development of their characters. The music was fully...