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...Story of a New England Parish in the Days of the Province" is however so quaint as to arouse universal interest. The remaining historical article, a "Biographical By-path through Early New England History," is an unpretentious, half-gossipy tale...
...cannot be induced to enter a church, though they will attend religious services if held in a place with which they are familiar. The services have been very successful. The test of their success has been necessarily one of numbers, for, as the limits of the work preclude parish relations, the chief indication that persons have been reached must be the fact that they attend. Each year the class has been materially the same - respectable tradesmen, mechanics and shop-women as well as many loafers...
...regretable losses in the Board of Preachers for this year the new comers are men known for their earnestness in religious work and thoroughly interested in broadening the religious side of the University. That these prayers have important influence is shown when one preacher consents to come from his parish in Ohio to conduct them. Moreover these clergymen do not desire to become merely pulpit preachers here. They have set aside hours when they will be present at Wadsworth House to meet with any student who may wish to call on them for consultation or for social intercourse, and they...
...began to undergo a change. Mr. Edward G. Mason contributes a paper on "Early Visitors to Chicago" in which he gives a description of the earliest visitor to Chicago - beginning with La Salle in 1671 - and what was their reported condition of the country. "The Annals of an Ancient Parish" by Rev. W. H. Savage gives a good account, - with illustrations of familiar places in this neighborhood - of the early churches in Watertown and vicinity...
...graduated at fifteen in 1826. After a few years of acting as tutor to a private family, he entered the Harvard Divinity School, and afterwards became instructor in Hebrew and tutor in Mathematics. The year after he left the Divinity School he was ordained pastor of a Second Parish church in Portsmouth, N. H., where he stayed till...