Word: supper
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Mitchell, therefore, selects Becky Sharp as the central figure of his drama. From her life he picks out four strong "situations,"--the flight with Rawdon, the Waterloo ball, the midnight supper with Lord Steyne, and the last days at Pumpernickel,--and to the strongest of these, the third, he subordinates the rest, making each the subject...
...Sacraments are not, in their outward form, to be viewed as essentials of Christianity. They have been altered again and again, and by the Friends and others, discarded. Yet in some form or another they must abide. We may dwell on the Sacraments generally, Baptism, and the Lord's Supper...
...special object of the Lord's Supper was social religion, to bind Christ's followers together. It was grafted on the Passover and, like it, was a family meal. All the names used for it, the Supper the Eucharist or thanksgiving (like Grace after meat) the Greek and Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache...
Finally, what is the place and importance of church ordinances and rites? Men are baptized in Christ's name, they take the Lord's Supper and worship in his name, and all these sacraments are symbols of the communion they hold with Him. Yet it is perfectly plain that there will be come men who will not need these sacraments; they may keep in touch with God without them. Toward these men there should be no false intolerance. Church sacraments have their definite spheres of influence, and after all, they are but symbols of the real heart worship. Christ does...
...Hardy defeated E. George, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; N. G. Beaman defeated H. Burgess, 6-2, 6-4, W. H. Laverack defeated G. M. McConnell, 6-1, 7-5; R. A. Bidwell defeated H. W. Read, 6-2, 9-7; G. O. Supper defeated C. C. Hackett, 6-0, 6-2; R. Stearns defeated W. Fischel, 6-4, 0-6, 6-3; S. H. Larby defeated H. W. Pitkin, 6-2, 6-3; H. D. Stickney defeated L. B. Stowe, 6 1, 6-3; A. Schwab defeated H. K. Stockton, 8 6, 6-2; F. Watson defeated...