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Twenty-two young colored converts were required by Rev. Mr. Cottrell of the Union Baptist Church, Cottrellville, Va., to pledge themselves "in the presence of God not to play base-ball or marbles...
While the discussion of Benjamin's future is going on in Mrs. Butterfield's room, Benjamin himself is in the parlor reading a book entitled, "Notes on the Reiterated Amens of the Sons of God," published by subscription, and left as a parting gift by the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot...
...French Senate, Saturday, discussing compulsory education, rejected, by a vote of 167 to 123, an amendment by M. Jules Simon, requiring school-masters to teach their pupils duty toward God and the country...
...YORK, Feb. 9. My Dear Oscar Wilde: I read with shame about the behavior of those ruffians at Rochester at your lecture there. When I see such things here in the civilized portion of my country, and read the coarse comments of the Phillistine press, I feel like thanking God that my home lies three thousand miles further on, and in what is called the wilderness. Should you get as far as Oregon in your travels, go to my father's. You will find rest there, and room - as much land as you can encompass in a day's ride...
...spirit that pervaded continental and English literature after the renaissance, Mr. Perry mentioned some of the questions that agitated the creeds of the day and led up to the state of mind in which Pope composed his "Essay on Man." It was "an attempt to vindicate the ways of God to man," and with such a necessarily large design the work was often rambling and incoherent. But though the thought is heterogeneous, it is warm, brilliant and clear, with all the charm of Pope's wonderful gift of expression...