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# Massachusetts Reform Club Speech (1885-04-24; Ellis)

Boston: Boston Daily Advertiser, page *. From the Boston Daily Advertiser of April 25, 1885. Speech of April 24 at an honorary dinner for Carl Schurz given by the Massachusetts Reform Club.
​The Rev. George E. Ellis was then called upon. He spoke as follows:—
Dr. George E. Ellis, who was then introduced, said: I admire Carl Schurz alike for the penetration of his statesmanship as much as for the mastery of his eloquence. In connection with the name and purpose of this club, there comes to my mind a golden sentence of the great Lord Bacon. It is crowded with wisdom, and is expressed in the dignity of strong, plain words, as follows: “Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” [Applause.] The truth is of universal compass, as applied to all things earthly, and I do not know but that it includes the stars in heaven. It recognizes the fact that there is in all organic and composite things an inherent tendency to degenerate and decay, if they are not re-enforced and renewed by an amending and reinvigorating process, a protective and reforming agency. Iron rusts away; wood yields to the worm, or rots; the solid rocks crumble, and character, in man or woman, if not steadily built up, strengthened, ennobled, or, as we say, made better, is impaired and debased. This truth applies to all human institutions, domestic, social, civil, political and religious. By wisdom, patience, strong purposes and noble effort, they must be purified and elevated, or they will waste by neglect, indifference or corruption. It is by the intelligent recognition of this, and by resolves and efforts of men of the nobler type, that things are altered for the better advisedly. The only alternate of decline and decay is renovation and improvement. The changing generations help the good work with fresh materials and new energies. The breaking up of old fossilized parties encourages it. The periodical recurrence of campaigns and elections are provocatives and opportunities for it. [Applause.] It may have been a grievance in our old early days that men were subject to a fine for refusing to serve as governor or in some other office. But that was better than that office holders should fine the whole community by using all trusts and places as spoils. [Great applause.] The vast majority of our citizens who do not desire, and who would not accept, public office must insist upon and exercise their right inside of parties and outside of parties. And it can never be out of course for those who, as citizens, take lead of those who held office under them, to insist upon pure integrity and rigid fidelity in the servants under them. Thus will things be altered for the better advisedly. [Applause.]
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# Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company v. United States

United States Supreme Court
288 U.S. 269
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company v. United States
Argued: Jan. 16-17, 1933. --- Decided: Feb 6, 1933
Mr. Guy Patten, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
The Attorney General and Mr. Whitney North Seymour, of Washington, D.C., for the United States.
Mr. Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Massachusetts State Grange v. Benton

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United States Supreme Court
272 U.S. 525
Massachusetts State Grange v. Benton
Argued: Oct. 13, 1926. --- Decided: Nov 23, 1926
Messrs. Frank W. Morrison, of Worcester, Mass., and Phil D. Swing, of San Diego, Cal., for appellants.
Messers. Jay R. Benton, Atty. Gen. (Lewis Goldberg, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellees.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Men-at-the-Bar/Coleridge, William Rennell

​Coleridge, William Rennell, B.A. Christ Church, Oxon, a student of the Inner Temple 10 Nov., 1877 (then aged 19), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1881 (only son of William Rennell Coleridge, of Salston, Ottery St Mary, Devon); born 29 Jan., 1858 (see Foster's Peerage).
    9, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C
# Men-at-the-Bar/Collett, John Stimpson

​Collett, John Stimpson, a student of Gray's Inn 15 April, 1844, called to the bar 24 Nov., 1847 (2nd son of Cornelius Collett, formerly of Woodbridge, Suffolk, gentleman); born , .
# Men-at-the-Bar/Colley, Philip (Wellesley)

​Colley, Philip (Wellesley), B.A. London Univ. 1867, a member of Convocation, educated at Stonyhurst, a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 16 April, 1866 (then aged 19), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1872 (eldest son of John Colley, Esq., of Lee, Sussex); born , 1847.
    Thoby Priory, Brentwood; 80, Gloucester Place, W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Colgan, Alexander Michael

​Colgan, Alexander Michael, LL.B., B.A. Trin. Coll., Dublin, a member of King's Inns, Dublin, a student of the Middle Temple 21 Jan., 1876, called to the bar 9 June, 1880 (eldest son of Francis Colgan, Esq., J.P., of Cappagh House, Enfield, co. Meath); born Sept., 1854.
    Cappagh, near Enfield, co. Kildare; 1. Hare Court, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Colin, Barthelemy Hardy

​Colin, Barthelemy Hardy, practises before the supreme court of the Mauritius, author of Intestate Succession according to the French Code, a student of the Middle Temple 6 Nov., 1874, called to the bar 13 June, 1877 [eldest son of (Hon.) Jules Louis Colin, of the Middle Temple, procureur and attorney-general of Mauritius, dec]; born , .
    Port Louis, Mauritius.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Collard, Arthur

​Collard, Arthur, a student of the Middle Temple 2 May, 1870, called to the bar 30 April, 1874 (elder son of Gustave Collard, of Mauritius, proprietor); born , .
# Men-at-the-Bar/Colles, Richard

​Colles, Richard, B.A., Trin. Coll., Dublin, 1840, practises before the supreme court of Victoria, a student of the Inner Temple 21 Oct., 1839, went to the Middle Temple 23 May, 1842, where he was called to the bar 13 Jan., 1843 (4th son of Abraham Colles, M.D., of Dublin); born , .
    Castlemaine, Victoria.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Collier, Charles Frederick

​Collier, Charles Frederick, a student of the Middle Temple 17 Nov., 1860, called to the bar 6 June, 1863 (eldest son of Charles Frederick Collier, inspector-general Indian army); born , ; married 12 Aug., 1862, Marian Eliza Mary, youngest dau. of late Major Robert McNair, of London.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Colles, William Morris

​Colles, William Morris, B.A. Emanuel Coll., Camb., a member of the Midland circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 1 May, 1877 (then aged 21), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1880 (only son of Rev. William Morris Colles, D.D., vicar of Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester); born 23 Nov., 1855; married 7 July, 1880, Fanny Elizabeth, younger dau. of W. F. Bird, Esq., of Walmer.
    1, Hare Court, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Collett, Charles

​Collett, Charles, judge at Madras 1869-71, entered the service 1845, author of A Manual of the Law of Torts, of The Law of Specific Relief in India, a student of Lincoln's Inn 13 Nov., 1856 (then aged 30), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1861 (3rd son of Rev. William Collett, of Thetford); born , 1826.
# Mennonite Handbook of Information/Chapter 6

CHAPTER VI
A SKETCH OF VERY EARLY MENNONITE HISTORY
From beyond the cognizance of human history North America has been occupied by the copper-colored race, who, as a people, have been recognized by the earliest discoverers and explorers as Indians, supposing that the new found lands they occupied, was India, a portion of the eastern extremity of Asia.
It was not until Balboa had discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1613 or until Magellan had circumnavigated the globe in 1621 that the truth dawned upon the inhabitants of Europe that the aborigines found here by white men, occupied an entirely new continent that became known to them as The New World, and later took the name of one of the explorers of its shores—America.
The new country, in time received settlements along its eastern borders by at least three distinct classes of people; adventurers, treasure hunters, and religious outcasts from Europe. Of these, four distinct nationalities, with their marked differences in language, customs and general habits in life, were represented Spanish, English, French, and German or Dutch. With the latter class, with which some Swiss colonists were included, were the Mennonites, who located principally in Pennsylvania, but ​in smaller numbers in the adjoining states of New York, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
It is not definitely known when and where the first Mennonites set foot on the shores of America, but it appears that with the invasion of the Dutch settlements at New Amsterdam, now New York, in 1664, there had for some years previous been located with them a community of Mennonites. After the occupation of New Amsterdam by the English, these people crossed over to the Long Island side in search of homes where they would not come in direct contact with their new English neighbors.
The place they selected for their home was at Gravesend, several miles out from the Brooklyn shore, by the forks of a stream flowing southward into the lower portion of New York Bay. As at Germantown, Pa., some twenty years later, the colony at Gravesend consisted of both Quakers and Mennonites who conducted public worship together by the men taking turns to read from the Scriptures on Sabbath days. This became necessary because it appears that at no time a minister had been provided for the colony.
The place, like Germantown, has the historical distinction of having been the scene of a battle ground during the period of the Revolutionary War. Both the name of the place as well as the settlement itself, is now included within the Borough of Brooklyn and hence there is little if anything left to show where possibly was located the earliest Mennonite community in America.
# Mennonite Handbook of Information/Chapter 2

CHAPTER II
MENNONITE CONFESSION OF FAITH
The first account we have of a Confession of Faith issued by Mennonites was on April 21, 1632, at the time of a peace convention held at Dort in Holland. This was signed by fifty-one ministers and teachers representing sixteen cities and towns of Holland, Lower Germany, the Palatinate and the upper country of the Rhine Valley in the following order:
DORT
* Isaac Koenig
* Johann Cobryssen
* Jan Jacobs
* Jacuis Terwin
* Claes Dirksen
* Mels Gysbaerts
* Adrian Cornelis
ROTTERDAM
* Balden C. Schumacher
* Michael Michiels
* Israel von Halmael
* Heinrich Apeldoren
* Andreas Lucken
UTRECHT
* Herman Segers
* Jan Heinrich Hochfeld
* Daniel Horens
* Abraham Spronk
* Wilhelm von Brockhuysen
THE UPPER COUNTRY
* Peter von Borsel
* Anton Hans
FLISSINGEN
* Dillaert Willeborts
* Jacob Pennen
* Lieren Marymehr
MIDDLEBURG
* Bastian Willemsen
* Jan Winkelmans
HARLEM
* John Doom
* Peter Gryspeer
* Dirk Wouters Kolenhamp
* Peter Joosten
SCHIEDAM
* Cornelis Bam
* Lambrecht Paeldink
CREVELDT
* Wilhelm Kreynen
* Herman Op den Graff
GORCUM
* Jacob von Sebrecht
* Jan J. von Kruysen
ARNHEIM
* Cornelis Jans
* Dirk Renderson
AMSTERDAM
* Tobias Goverts
* Peter Jansen Mayer
* Abram Dirks
* David Ter Haer
* Peter Jan von Zingel
BOMMEL
* Wilhelm Jan von Exselt
* Gispert Spiering
LEYDEN
* Christian de Kopink
* Jan Weyns
BLOCKZYL
* Claes Claesson
* Peter Peterson
ZIRICZEB
* Anton Cornelis
* Peter Jan Zimmerman
ZEALAND
* Cornelis de Moir
* Isaac Claes
Twenty-eight years after—February 4, 1660—thirteen ministers and elders met at Ohnenheim, Alsace, and after examination found this Confession founded on the Word of God, and adopted it entirely as their own, and in testimony signed with their own hands as follows:
MAGENHEIM
ISENHEIM
OHNENHEIM
* Ulrich Husser
* Jacob Gochnauer
HEIDELHEIM
KUNENHEIM
JEPSENHEIM
KUNENHEIM
BALDENHEIM
MARKIRCH
* Adolph Schmidt
* Jacob Schmidt
* Bertram Habich
DUERRSANZENHEIM
These declarations in the form of a Confession of Faith were printed in the Dutch language of Holland in the year 1660 in The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror by Thielman J. Van Braght. In the year 1748 it was translated into German directed by Heinrich Funck and Dielman Kolb at Ephrata, Pa.
In 1837 the long Confession of Faith of 33 Articles was translated into English and published by Peter Burkholder of Virginia. It was also translated into English in 1859 at Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, by a committee, representing the Mennonite ​Church in Canada, and still later the Eighteen Articles were translated out of the original Dutch language of Holland and published in the Ministers' Manual by Mennonite Publishing Company at Elkhart, Indiana, in 1890. This Confession of Faith is still in common use in our churches.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Butler, George

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​BUTLER, The Rev. George, M.A., is the eldest son of the late Rev. George Butler, head master of Harrow School and afterwards Dean of Peterborough, and brother of the Rev. Dr. Butler, the present head master of Harrow. He was born in 1820, and educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, but migrated thence to Oxford, and entered at Exeter College, where he obtained the Hertford University Scholarship, in 1841. He was subsequently elected to a Fellowship at his college and took his Bachelor's degree as a first-class in classics in 1843, proceeding M.A. in 1846. He was ordained deacon in 1854 and priest in the following year, by Dr. Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. He was formerly Vice-Principal of Cheltenham College, and was Principal of Liverpool College from 1867 to 1882. Mr. Butler was Public Examiner in the University of Oxford in 1852, Classical Examiner to the Secretary of State for War in 1855, and Examiner for the East India Company's Civil Service in 1856. In June, 1882, Mr. Gladstone conferred on him a canonry of Winchester which had become vacant by the elevation of the Rev. Ernest Wilberforce to the bishopric of Newcastle. Mr. Butler is the author or editor of the following works:—"Principles of Imitative Art," 1852; "Descriptio Antiqui Codicis Virgiliani," privately printed 1854; "Essay on the Raphael Drawings in the University Galleries," contributed to the "Oxford Essays," 1856; "Cheltenham College Sermons," 1862; "Family Prayers," 1862; "The Public Schools Atlas of Modern Geography," 1871; and "The Public Schools Atlas of Ancient Geography," 1876.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Butler, Henry Montagu

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​BUTLER, The Rev. Henry ​Montagu, Head Master of Harrow School, youngest son of the late Rev. George Butler, D.D., Head Master of Harrow, and afterwards Dean of Peterborough, was born in 1833, and educated at Harrow, under Dr. Vaughan, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was elected Bell University Scholar in 1852, and Battie University Scholar in 1853. In 1853 he won Sir W. Browne's medal for the Greek ode, and in 1854 the Porson Prize, the Greek ode, the Camden medal for Latin Hexameters, and the Members' Prize for a Latin essay. In 1855 he graduated B.A. as Senior Classic, and in the same year was elected Fellow of his college. On the retirement of Dr. Vaughan, at Christmas, 1859, he was elected to the head mastership of the school, over which his father had presided for twenty-four years, from 1805 to 1829. He was honorary chaplain to the Queen, 1875–77; chaplain in ordinary, 1877; prebendary of St. Paul's and examining chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1879. He has been several times select preacher at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He published in 1861 and in 1869 volumes of "Sermons preached in the Chapel of Harrow School."
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Butterfield, William

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​BUTTERFIELD, William, architect, was born Sept. 7, 1814. Having been brought up as an architect, he devoted himself more especially to a scientific study of the various Gothic styles, into which, since entering on his profession, he has imported variety by the use of coloured stone, brick, and marble, both in churches and domestic buildings. His chief works are St. Augustine's College, Canterbury; All Saints' Church and Schools, Margaret Street, London; Baldersby Church, Yorkshire; Yealmpton Church, Devonshire; the new chapel at Balliol College, Oxford; St. Alban's Church, Baldwin's Gardens, Gray's Inn Lane; Winchester County Hospital; Winchester and Rugby School Buildings; and Keble College, Oxford.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Byrne, Mrs. William Pitt

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​BYRNE, Mrs. William Pitt, second daughter of the late Hans Busk, Esq., of Great Cumberland Place, and widow of William Pitt-Byrne, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, proprietor of the Morning Post, an elegant scholar and a man of high literary attainments, artistic tastes, and musical proficiency. Mrs. Pitt-Byrne contributed at an early age to many of the principal periodicals of the day, but always anonymously. One of her contributions to Fraser was a detailed and comprehensive history of Montagu House, which appeared in four numbers of that Magazine: a companion-paper of much research, on the Hôtel de Carnavalet was published in the People's, and, among others, in Macmillan, an interesting description of the archives of the Préfecture de Police, since burnt by the Communards. Mrs. Pitt-Byrne wrote for Once a Week, and contributed (July, 1866) a scholarly and poetical paper called "The Grotto of Vaucluse." The first volume she published, "A Glance behind the Grilles," appeared in 1854. It was followed by several others; the most popular being, perhaps, the well-known volume of "Flemish Interiors" and it is as the "Author of Flemish Interiors" that this writer has always since presented her productions to the public. Her other works, all very favourably and generally known, bear on them the unmistakable stamp of artistic and literary culture; those of a social and descriptive character have been illustrated by her own pencil. They comprise, besides those above named—"Realities of Paris Life," 8 vols.; "Red, White, and Blue," 3 vols.; "Undercurrents Overlooked," 2 vols.; "Cosas de España," 2 vols.; "Feudal Castles of France;" "Gheel, or the City of the Simple;" "The Beggynhof, or the City of the Single;" "Sainte Perrine, or the City of the Gentle;" "Pictures of Hungarian Life;" and "Curiosities of the Search-room." Mrs. Pitt-Byrne has for many years written musical, dramatic, and literary critiques for several daily and weekly papers, and has also supplied paragraphs and papers of interest of another class to the columns of Land and Water.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Butler, William Francis

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​BUTLER, Major William Francis, C.B., was born in the county of Tipperary, Ireland, in 1838, and educated at Dublin. He was appointed Ensign of the 69th Regiment, Sept. 17, 1858; Lieutenant, Nov., 1863; Captain, 1872; Major, 1874; and Deputy-Adjutant-Quarter-Master-General, Head Quarter-Staff, 1876. Major Butler served on the Red River Expedition; was sent on a special mission to the Saskatchewan Territories in 1870–71; and served on the Ashanti Expedition in 1873, in command of the West Akim native forces. He was several times mentioned in despatches of Sir Garnet Wolseley, and in the House of Lords by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief. He was appointed a Companion of the Bath in 1874. In Feb., 1879, he was despatched to Natal to assume the responsible post of Staff Officer at the port of disembarcation. Major Butler is the author of "The Great Lone Land," 1872; "The Wild North Land," 1873; "Akimfoo," 1875; and "Far out: Rovings retold," 1880. He married, June 11, 1877, at the church of the Servite Fathers, Fulham Road, London, Miss Elizabeth Thompson, the painter.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Butler, Elizabeth Southerden

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​BUTLER, Mrs. Elizabeth Southerden, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas J. Thompson, by Christina, daughter of Mr. T. B. Weller, was born at Lausanne, in Switzerland. Her parents removed to Prestbury, near Cheltenham, where, at the age of five years, Miss Thompson first began to handle the pencil. After two or three years' sojourn at Prestbury, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson went to live in Italy, and the young artist continued her studies at Florence. In 1870 the family returned to England, and took up their abode at Ventnor, where they remained till the great success of Miss Thompson's picture of the "Roll Call" made a removal to London desirable. At one period she studied in the Government School of Art, Kensington. For some years she exhibited at the Dudley and other galleries. Her first picture at the Royal Academy was "Missing," 1873. It was followed in 1874 by the "Roll Call," a picture which attracted universal attention, and which was purchased by the Queen. "The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras" was exhibited at the Academy in 1875; "Balaklava" in Bond Street in 1876; and "Inkermann" in Bond Street in 1877. More recently she has painted:—"'Listed for the Connaught Rangers: recruiting in Ireland," 1879; "The Defence of Rorke's Drift," 1881; "Floreat Etona!" 1882, an incident in the attack on Laing's Nek; and a picture representing the famous charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo (1882). Miss Thompson became the wife of Major William Francis Butler, C.B., June 11, 1877.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Butt, Charles Parker

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​BUTT, The Hon. Charles Parker, was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1854, and joined the Northern circuit. He obtained a silk gown in 1868. He unsuccessfully contested Tamworth in Feb., 1874, and sat for Southampton, in the Liberal interest, from April, 1880, till March, 1883, when he was appointed to the judgeship in the Admiralty division of the High Court of Justice, vacant by the resignation of Sir Robert Phillimore.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Byles, John Barnard

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​BYLES, The Right Hon. Sir John Barnard, son of the late Mr. John Byles, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, born in 1801, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1831; went ​for some years the Norfolk circuit, and in 1840 was appointed Recorder of Buckingham. In 1843 he received the coif of a serjeant-at-law, to which was afterwards added a patent of precedence. He is the author of several professional works of high repute; amongst which may be mentioned one "On the Usury Laws," and another "On Bills of Exchange;" and of a political work of some notoriety, entitled "The Sophisms of Free Trade." In 1857 he was made Queen's Serjeant, and in 1858 received the honour of knighthood on his elevation to the Bench as one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. He resigned his judgeship at the commencement of Jan., 1873; on March 3, following, he was sworn of the Privy Council. He is the author of "The Foundation of Religion in the Mind and Heart of Man," 1875.
# Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Byr, Robert

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​BYR, Robert. (See Bayer.)