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...aristocratic birth. He was educated privately and at Oxford, then was elected Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, For several years he held various offices in connection with the religious side of the college and in 1900 was made Canon of Westminster Abbey and Rector of St. Margaret's Church. As Rector of St. Margaret's Church, Canon Henson is preacher to the House of Commons, and so occupies a distinguished but peculiar position in the church. He has been very prominent in the recent controversies in England over the "open church" question, and on account of his democratic tendencies...
...SOUTHWORTH LECTURES IN ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. "Historic Theories of the Church. I. The Primitive Theory of the Church." Professor Arthur C. McGiffert, D.D., of Union Theological Seminary. Semitic Museum...
President Eliot will deliver an address on "The Puritan Church and the Puritan College," at a public meeting which will be held in the Old South Church, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The meeting is in honor of Dr. G. A. Gordon '81, who has completed twenty-five years' service as pastor of that church: Dr. Gordon became minister at the Old South Church only three years after his graduation from Harvard. He is at present an Overseer of the University and a University preacher...
Professor Lefranc advanced another interesting theory, that Moliere wrote "Don Juan" as an attack on his former patron, the Prince de Conti, who had lately gone over to the church party and had inveighed against. "Le Tartuffe" from that point of view. This great blow to Moliere was revenged by the faithful portrayal of the Prince in the figure of the libertine, Don Juan...
...College of Ohio in 1877; from the Union Theological Seminary of New York in 1884, and later studied at Berlin, Gottingen and other foreign universities. In 1886 he was appointed pastor at Yonkers, N.Y., where he remained for three years. Then he accepted the pastership of the Central Congregational Church, of Providence, R.I., which he held until he came to Cambridge as Parkman Professor of Theology...