Word: burial
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States the civil law does not regulate in any way the entering of the clerical office. It imposes no examinations, and establishes no standard of merit as it does for admission to the bar. Of the three great duties of the clergymen, baptism, marriage, and the burial of the dead, the law only recognizes one, that of marriage, and this has been recognized only for about two hundred years. The first marriage of this kind in New England was performed in 1686. The question as to whether an ordained minister could unite himself in marriage to the woman...
...what is beyond the reach of their readers. It would be an unpleasant admission for them, but their work generally is more interesting the more commonplace it becomes. Few would not take more pleasure in following the fairly easy rhyming and rythm of P. L. Shaw's piece, "The Burial of Alaric," than in separating the idea of Eugene Warner's "Loneliness," from the confusion of words in which the author has clothed...
...body will be taken to his home in Prince Edwards Island, today, for burial...
...make it at all remarkable. "The Funeral of Phillips Brooks" is a poem not especially good in itself, but finely illustrated from photographs of the funeral. There are pictures of the funeral inside and outside of Trinity Church, the scene in the college yard, and finally the burial at Mount Auburn. There are a number of other good articles though we have mentioned the best of them. Some of the others are "The Old Meeting-House in Hingham Mass." by Price Collier, "The Real Inventor of the Steamboat," and an article by C. J. Danforth on "Trout Fishing...
...Graduate School and has done more or less tutoring in the modern languages. His quiet manner and his earnestness in his work won him the respect of all who knew him. The funeral will be held at St. John's Memorial Chapel tomorrow at 2 p. m. The burial will be at Baltimore...