Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peabody conducted the vesper service held in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. He read the story of John the Baptist from Luke, and made it the text of his remarks. He said that John is the link between the Old Testament and the New. There is the same message at the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New. "I am the culmination of the prophets" He looks at the future, not last, but first; he holds the door open. Every man in his little way stands between the past and the future...
LOST.- Friday afternoon on Main street between Baptist church and Beck hall a gold examined watch with gold chain and ball. Finder will be rewarded for returning to 14 Chauncy...
...Rockefeller has given $1,500,000 for the founding of a Baptist University in Chicago on condition that $350,000 additional be raised in Chicago within five years...
...Jefferson, and Wesleyan, each six; Dartmouth, Brown, and Hameden-Sidney, each five; Michigan, Virginai, and De Pauw Universities, each four; Bowdoin, Dickinson, Rochester, Bethany and Pennsylvania colleges, each three. Nearly one-half of the number of colleges are non-sectarian. Of the denominational colleges 41 are Methodist Episcopal, 36 Baptist, 24 Presbyterian, 14 Congregational, 9 Christian, 8 Lutheran and 7 Episcopalian. Forty-three of the presidents were educated at the college over which they preside. One hundred and ten of the institutions listed are known as universities...
...students of the Yale Divinity School have been assigned to assist the various pastors of the city in their mission. Fifty-three have been assigned to Congregationalist pastors, eleven to Methodist, twelve to Baptist, and a number to other denominations. A committee of two from each class have the matter in charge, among whom are Peabody and Means, graduates of Harvard last year. Of the Senior class nine are already preaching and most of the undergraduates are engaged in out side work...