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...Crimson has read the address in its entirety. To us it still seems that the implications of the first portion of the sermon are interventionist. However, the Crimson is happy to find that it is in error, that Bishop Lawrence never intended to be so understood. It is our fervent hope that others in the Harvard community will be wise enough to follow the Bishop's lead, and neither "think or say that this country should enter...
...foot, over foot bridge and mountain trail, the man first, his arms full of quilt and baby, next a passel of children, then the woman, carrying the next to youngest. As a kerosene lamp flung shifting shadows on the plain pine walls, the congregation rejoiced, with prayers, a rousing sermon, hymn singing to Defendant McGehee's guitar...
Moralists liked to recall after his disgrace the unhealthy tendencies Oscar already showed at Oxford-his sermon-inspiring crack: "Would that I could live up to my blue china;" his incense-burning and precious bric-a-brac, decadent paintings, rhapsodies in verse to Actress Lily Langtry, his declaration that "I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world." What was less frequently recalled was that he was the pet of Slade Professor John Ruskin and of the great Walter Pater, who was once so overcome by his protege's beautiful talk...
There was a bitter cold northwest wind sweeping across the Yard yesterday morning--may be that partly accounted for the chilliness of the atmosphere inside the Memorial Chapel, where a spic and span Easter crowd listened to a sermon by Dr. Henry John Cody, President of the University of Toronto. But undoubtedly there was another contributing factor in the words of Dr. Cody himself. Exhorting his student hearers not to be "afraid of the high and noble adventure of life," he held up to them as an example of fearlessness the young men of Canada who have gone...
...blooded families of the U. S. have founded many a dynasty of bankers, polo players, industrialists, hell-raisers. Few are the dynasties of U. S. churchmen. An outstanding exception are the Kinsolvings of Virginia. George Washington Lee Kinsolving, a Tidewater aristocrat who once cut short a long sermon with, "Parson, isn't it grog time?", was bound that his only son should enter the church. Last week a great-grandson of old George Kinsolving did something as hearty as his ancestor's remark. He announced that he was leaving his big, rich, famed Boston parish for a small...