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To get into this Vestry in the eminent capacity of Vestryman, gigantic efforts are made, and Herculean exertions used.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Mr. Funston is a Trustee of Trinity College and of a number of leading philanthropic institutions, a Vestryman of the famous Trinity Church in New York City and for the current year he is general chairman of the Greater New York Fund Campaign.
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He was a devoted member of the Episcopal Church, and served in all the offices allowable to a layman -- Vestryman, Senior Warden, Superintendent of Sunday Schools, Lay Reader, Delegate to Diocesan Conventions and to the General Convention.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912
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Graham Wallas, who had been elected to the London School Board in 1894, resigned his seat on the Executive in 1895; Bernard Shaw became a St. Pancras Vestryman without a contest in 1897, an event rather of literary [30] than political significance, and in 1898 he had a serious illness which kept him out of the movement for nearly two years; whilst at the end of 1899
The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906
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Lillback in his book does attempt at a smoking gun to prove Washington's orthodox Trinitarianism: Oaths that he took while becoming a Godfather and a Vestryman in the Anglican / Episcopal Church.
Positive Liberty 2008
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-- the question is, after all, purely a parochial one -- and here I would stop to wonder, if I do not seem pathetic and out of character, why the Artist is naturally an object of vituperation to the Vestryman?
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler 1868
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Vestryman, ‘if the honourable and gallant gentleman’s honour is never more doubted and damaged than it is by me, he’s all right.’
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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The Rector, Warden, and Vestryman of St. James v. The Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Los Angeles
ADF Alliance Alert 2009
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Don was a member of the Lubbock Rotary Club, the Yellowhouse Masonic Lodge and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where he has served as Vestryman and Treasurer.
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Don was a member of the Lubbock Rotary Club, the Yellowhouse Masonic Lodge and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where he has served as Vestryman and Treasurer.
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