Word: deacons
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Bishop Brent, who has been chosen to deliver this important series of lectures, was born in 1862, and was graduated from Trinity College of the University of Toronto. He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1886, and a priest in 1887. During 1887 he was assistant minister of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, and in the following year he came to Boston and entered the clergy-house of St. John the Evangelist, which was in charge of the Cowley Fathers. In 1891, on the dissolution of this order, he was taken into the mission church...
...oaths were made to be very difficult, a mere slip of the tongue in stating them being enough to convict the swearer. Not only veracity, but the strength of the oath was taken into account; for instance, a parson's oath was worth twice as much as a deacon's. In trials by arbitration, the judge is the mediating power. In closing, Professor Vinogradoff said that every country has been through the period of customary law, proceeding from downright struggle to compromise, and that this advance was the greatest curb...
...Grant has been for 14 years rector of the Church of the Ascension, New York. In 1886 he received the degree of A.M. from Harvard, the degree of B.D. from the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge, and the orders of a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church. The following year he was ordained a priest, and after this he held the pastorship of the Church of the Ascension in Fall River, Mass., until in 1893 he succeeded the Rev. E. Winchester Donald as rector of the Church of the Ascension...
...Luther, of Hartford, will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Dr. Luther is now president of Trinity College, Hartford, from which he graduated in 1870, and received the degree of Ph.D. in 1896. He is also a perpetual deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Thayer '04 Drugger, a tobacco man, D. C. Manning 1L. Sir Epicure Mammon, a knight, R. S. Wallace '04 Lovewit, master of the house, H. S. Deming '05 Pertinax Surly, a gamester, R. I. Underhill '06 Tribulation Wholesome, a pastor of Amsterdam, H. McI. Holmes '06 Ananias, a deacon, H. P. Johnson '05 Kastril, the angry boy, T. P. Smith '05 Dame Pliant, a widow, R. B. Gring '05 First Officer, J. Kerans '07 Second Officer, J. F. Henderson...