The Press., 1894-09-20
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Standard. Both the groom and bride are we'll known in Staffordville, where the one for time supplied the Congrega- tional pulpit, and the other was very popular and successful teacher in the will lage schools:
 Rev. w. l.. Beard and Miss Ellen l.. Kinney were united in marriage at the residence of Dea. Myron Kinney last Wednesday afternoon (5th), Rev. F. D. Sargent performing the ceremony. The bridesmaid was Miss Etta l.. Kinney, and best man o. G. Beard. The ushers were Ebert Kinney and Ernest Moore. A reception was held after the ceremony. The bridal couple were the recipients of a number of beautiful gifts. MT. Beard is 8 young man of ability, and has recent ly been pastor of church at Abingdon. The bride is we'll known and much es- teemed here, and both have the best wishes of their many friends. They left for wedding tour on the 4 o'clock train. In October they will go to China as mis- sionaries, being under appointment from the board of foreign missions.
 Springfield Republican,: From the Riverside press of Houghton, Mifflin & Go. comes little volume of pathetic in- terest to many in this vicinity. It con- tains the inaugural address of Theodore c. Pease, the youthful and lanented pro- lessor, at his induction year ago to the chair of sacred rhetoric in Andovel theo- logical seminary, together with other writings, an introduction by Prof.. Lgbert C.. Smyth, and a finely-wrought biographi- cal sketch. He was the descendant of an ancient and honorable family, whose or igin is German. The American branch, in whose line came Prof. Pease, traces it's descent to Robert Pease, who came from Ipswich, Eng, in April 1884, and settled in Salem. His son John removed from Salem to Freshwater Brook, then belong ing to Springfield, and now Thompson vile, Conn. His descendants were hon. ored citizens of Enfield and Somers. The father of Prof. Pease, CIaudius Buchanan Pease, was native of Somers, for several years a merchant in Georgia, Louisiana and New York, who in later years return ed to Somers, whence he removed to Springfield to engage in paper manufac- ture. Theodore's mother was Elvira Ann Smith, daughter of Jonathan and Elvira Mary w. Chapin, former principal of Mount Holyoke seminary. Both were women of rare character, refinement and culture, and contributed largely to his ex- +ro0 ic exceptional gift of language. MT. Pease acknowledged his special indebtedness when a Springfield boy to Prof. O. M. Fernald, of Williams college, then a teacher in our Springfield high school. The volume is edited by the "Fort- nightly Club," to which MT. Pease be- longed, and well illustrates it's title ''The Christian Ministry; Its Present Claim and Attraction,' which was the topic of the professors inaugural. His speaking, sunny and beautiful face con- fronts the title page, and the very spirit and life of the man transfigures the whole book. He was accustomed to deliver his thoughts, after the most care- ful and finished preparation, in this ex- l tempore form, and was an accomplished master of this style of address, not in mere fluency of ready words, but in the l fitting choice of the right word out of a | copious and rich vocabulary. This book apart from its impressiveness and inspira- l tion as the memorial of magnetic and radiant character, is valuable help to young ministers and divinity students, and indeed to any others who would culti- vate the art of public speaking or charm | ing conversation. It has a yet higher value in presenting to young men in any sphere of life a pure, noble and winning ideal. There is a certain aroma that fills l it's pages, virtue that goes out of them because touched to the noblest and finest | issues.
 One of the choice things in the book is his Essay on Dante's Vision of Sin and Judgment; Study of the Inferno" It indicates the habits of study and cul- | ture that made him such a fine master of good English. Every day witnessed to his reading canto of Dante in the origi- nal, to be translated into the best words he could command, until he had been through the "Commeda" nearly 70 times. and Dante was but one of the classics in various tongues with which he was in- timately and critically familiar. From his early days he was conversant with the masters of expression, his range ever en- larging as the years went on. But never was he a dry and scholastic man. He loved his kind, his goodwill was always 1 overfiowing, his genius for friendship and comradeship was ever binding others, without distinction of class, to his genial | and winsome personality. His sudden, and to human view, untimely death was a great loss to Andover, and to the rising ministry of our times.
 Clair s. Hutchinson, of Hartford, and Miss May G., second daughter of the late Sherman P. Sumner, were married at Bolton Tuesday afternoon, 11th, at the home of the brides mother. Owing to the recent death of the younger sister of
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