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... Controversy . By Morrison Chaplain W. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1967 . Pp. viii , 244 . $6.00 . The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery . By Learner Gerda . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1967 . Pp. x , 479 . $6.95...

...George E. Hastings Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 JACOB DUCHE, FIRST CHAPLAIN OF CONGRESS GEORGE E. HASTINGS FEW Americans are so ignorant of the history of their country as not to have been told by some of their teachers in the public schools that the first meeting...

... not toward peace, but toward war. He was probably thinking of Newell Dwight Hillis, whose Brooklyn pulpit had been such a powerful agency of hatred in the Civil War, who was men­ tioned by Theodore Roosevelt as the ideal chaplain, and whose cry that civilization must unite to kill a mad dog was so...

... in initia­ tion ceremonies; the worthy chaplain delivered th . harge to the candidates, led in prayer during initiation ceremonies, adminis­ tered the solemn oath on the Bible, and looked after the morals of the lodge generally; the chief officer was the worthy commander, who was assisted in his executive...

..., with his inim­ itable drawl began: Mr. Toastmaster, Doctor Hill s speech re­ minds me of a story told by General Jubal Early about the second battle of Bull Run. As the battle was about to begin and General Early was moving up toward the front lines, he passed a chaplain . John Sharp Williams...

... find their way back to the Church, and to sanctity. Suffering makes saints, one hospital chaplain told his congregation of sick people, of many who in health were indif­ ferent to the practices of their holy religion. 4 Pain was a ladder to Heaven; the saints were unhappy unless they were...

... Quarterly garbed as a strange fish, advertised elaborately by means of a picture, trumpets, and an industrious barker, and then ex­ hibited to those who are willing to pay the admission price of one shilling. More significant is a frequently cited passage in the diary of the Rev. Richard Madox, chaplain...

... Feb­ ruary 11, 1824, in Lexington, Virginia. From Washington College he received the B.A. degree in 1842 and the M.A. in 1844. After courses in theology at Union Seminary, Va., and Princeton and a period of two years as chaplain and student at the University of Virginia, he settled in 1851 as pastor...

... working hard at, the studies which had occupied the frivolous hours when he had been a young chaplain in Northumberland s household. He was eager to get Malone s long letters of literary gossip and to hear about the meetings and membership of the famous Club with which he had in the earlier days been...

..., journalist and professor of American literature, has written the first full-scale biography of Joel Barlow to be published since 1886, when Charles B. Todd published his undocumented Life and Letters of Joel Barlow. Barlow s many-faceted career as Revolutionary chaplain; Hartford wit; agent in France...

..., in the early spring of 1717. The twenty-five-year-old scholar and clergyman had come to fill the post of Mathematickal Professor at the College of William and Mary. Through the influence of Governor Alexander Spotswood he became Book Reviews 143 chaplain to the House of Burgesses in 1718. The following year...

.... This recruit showed by enlisting as chaplain to the forces under Lord Hopton that his was more than pen-loyalty and lip-service. It is to the years of service that followed in the royal army that the world owes his book on the Worthies of England . During the course of several long campaigns within a small...

... the frivolous hours when he had been a young chaplain in Northumberland s household. He was eager to get Malone s long letters of literary gossip and to hear about the meetings and membership of the famous Club with which he had in the earlier days been associated. We can share his eagerness, for though many...

... as to the pursuit of marauding Seminoles into Spanish Florida; of his views on U.S. policy toward Spain; of his par­ ticipation in cabinet discussion; of his role in legislation and appropria­ tions affecting the War Department and Army; of his relationship to such diverse matters as the Military Academy, chaplains...

... Woodress, journalist and professor of American literature, has written the first full-scale biography of Joel Barlow to be published since 1886, when Charles B. Todd published his undocumented Life and Letters of Joel Barlow. Barlow s many-faceted career as Revolutionary chaplain; Hartford wit; agent...

... was We are here! Major Eden, 37th Wisconsin Volun­ teers, was editor, assisted by Captain Charles H. McCreery, 8th Michigan Veteran Volunteers and Chaplain D. Heagle. They proposed to publish a live paper as long as circumstances will permit; that is, as long as we can steal the paper and get men de­...

... brother David entered the Confed­ erate army, and the priest served as chaplain, and sometimes as a soldier in the ranks, throughout the entire war. A story is told of Father Ryan s labors in New Orleans in 1862-63, in which it is said that he refused to officiate at the burial of some Federal soldiers...

..., to become the Lancaster herald. Abraham Flem­ ing was university-educated and became chaplain to the countess of Nottingham. William Harrison graduated from Oxford and became chaplain to William Brooke, Lord Cobham; John Stow, who liked to be known as Citizen, began as apprentice to a tailor, but he...

..., and clearly the pattern which has emerged has other features that are almost too dark for contemplation. Eiseley quotes from Darwin: What a book a devil s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, and horribly cruel works of nature. That book is being written by contemporary observers...

... are the repositories of the secret packet, whose mysterious contents we long to learn. Yet not a soul on board of us knows not even the commodore himself; assuredly not the chaplain; even our 50 The South Atlantic Quarterly professor s scientific surmisings are in vain. . . . Oppressed by il­ liberal laws, and partly...