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...These are the saddest loking dummesehullen I ever looked down on What on earth made all these blank faces flock to my course? Last year's crop was a fine, studious crowd. Appreciative too: they knew a good joke when they heard one. They laughed every time I told it. But this bunch! Well, I'll have to get through the hour somehow. Then back to Boccaccio. Think I'll read over those passages in Rabelais again. Nothing like those fine old writers to make the fire of youth surge once more through these old veins. Hm-m time...
Bostonians, thinking not of cash or credit, continued to flock blithely to hear Mr. Insult's singers...
...Carl F. Woertz, pastor of the Mission, departed with some of his flock for California. All had disposed of their earthly belongings, except the clothes which they wore. Mrs. E. H. Frey, one of the departing flock, said: "The chosen?144,000?will be guided ito California by a light. They will gather on a hill in the vicinity of Hollywood and there be saved...
...bishops returned each to his flock...
Ethics. Mr. Rockefeller is familiar with the parable about the rich man's son. He is a Christian, a member of the flock of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan. At this Church there is a Bible class, first conducted (as noted above) by Charles Evans Hughes, originated by Dr. Faunce, who became President of Brown University, from which Mr. Rockefeller graduated in 1897. Mr. Rockefeller became interested in the Bible class, became its leader, instructed it for seven years. Now he is its Honorary President. Several times a year he attends its meetings, reads to the members...