Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with truth, that I have entered on the course of danger with no ambitio us aspirations, nor with the idea that I am fitted, by nature or experience, to be of any important service to the government; but in obedience to the call of duty demanding of every citizen to contribute what he can in means, labor or life, to sustain the government of the country,- a sacrifice made the more willingly by me when I consider how singularly benefitted I have been by the constitutions of the land, and that up to this time all the blessings of life...
...United States, the clergyman is simply a private citizen with no more powers or privileges than other citizens. In England until very recently a clergyman was prohibited by law from holding any secular office, or ever being elected a member of the House of Commons. Now, however, both in this country and in England, priests and deacons may relinquish their duties as clergymen and enter another profession...
...minister is a person appointed to conduct religion and to administer its rites. A minister, if a citizen of Massachusetts, may be a corporation. In such...
...Reform depends upon the awakened intelligence and moral sense of the community, and every youth at the University who desires to know his duty as a citizen in respect to a question which seems likely soon to become the most prominent subject of debate in our national politics should be present at the meeting...
...results of Extension teaching in England. He said that the average citizen, who has to pursue his education collaterally with the work of life, is ready and ripe for instruction in the higher branches of learning, and that the work done by them in the Extension classes and the examinations undergone by them would, in the case of some of the students, compare favorably even with the most advanced instruction in England, such for example as the Indian Civil Service open competitive examination...