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Mather began to publicize and celebrate the trials well before they were put to an end: " If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified ..." ( Wonders of the Invisible World ).
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Mather and began
After graduating from high school in 1930, Norton planned to become a teacher and began studying at Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University.
He managed to at least temporarily mend political fences with Constantine Phips and Cotton Mather, and began lobbying for the Massachusetts governorship after the death of Bellomont in 1701.
There was some confusion over this in the 1950s, when a journalist named Jim Mather ( Sydney Daily Telegraph ) began referring to the team as the " Seagulls " in his reports.
Mather, who had been appointed the first director of the National Park Service, began to display apparent mental illness in 1917.
According to Mather he was a shepherd until the age of 18, after which he began a four-year apprenticeship as a ship's carpenter.
Beginning in 1913, Mather wrote to the Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane, and deplored the state of the national parks ; he also began building public support for better management of the system by the federal government.
Increase Mather, then the president of Harvard, was theologically conservative, while a number of the directors had adopted moderate views, and in these years they began a struggle for control of the college.
While Mather is generally seen as the instigator and aggressor, the rivalry began when half of a Mather blocking group succeeded in transferring interhouse to Kirkland House.
As the 20th century dawned, Mather began leasing stock cars to the railroads that used them.
The pastor recognized Mather and began to harangue him to repent of his sinful ways.
Mather and publicize
Mather was effective in building support for the parks with a variety of politicians and wealthy corporate leaders ; he also led efforts to publicize the National Parks and develop wider appreciation for their scenic places among the population.
Mather and celebrate
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Mather and trials
Despite the fact that Increase Mather did not support the trials, Cotton Mather documented them ( Hovey 531-2 ).
Mather was influential in the construction of the court for the trials from the beginning.
Mather claims he did not attend the trials in Salem ( though his father attended the trial of George Burroughs ).
Bancroft notes that Mather considered witches " among the poor, and vile, and ragged beggars upon Earth ," and Bancroft asserts that Mather considered the people against the witch trials to be witch advocates.
In the years after the trials, Cotton Mather remained unrepentant for his role.
William Stoughton, Mather wrote Wonders of the Invisible World written during the trials and published in 1693.
The book contained a few of Mather ’ s sermons, the conditions of the colony and a description of witch trials in Europe.
Calef's book was inspired by the fear that Mather would succeed in once again stirring up new witchcraft trials, and the need to bear witness to the horrible experiences of New Englanders in 1692.
Hansen claimed Mather acted as a moderating influence in the trials by opposing the death penalty for those who confessed — or feigned confession — such as Tituba and Dorcas Good.
Hansen also claims that most negative impressions of Cotton Mather stem from his defense of the ongoing trials in Wonders of the Invisible World.
After others had lamented the roles they played in the executions of nineteen and imprisonment of hundreds, Mather remained the chief defender of the trials, which diminishes the view of him as a moderate influence.
Larry Gragg highlights Mather ’ s cloudy thinking and confusion between sympathy for the possessed, and the boundlessness of spectral evidence when Mather stated, “ the devil have sometimes represented the shapes of persons not only innocent, but also the very virtuous .” And writing in the early 1980s, John Demos seemed to consider Mather a moderating influence on the trials.
The book strongly influenced Cotton Mather in his Discourse on Witchcraft ( 1689 ) and the Salem witch trials held 1692-3 in Salem, Massachusetts.
September 20, Cotton Mather wrote to Stephen Sewall, the clerk of the court: " That I may be the more capable to assist in lifting up a standard against the infernal enemy ..." requesting "... a narrative of the evidence given in at the trials of half a dozen, or if you please, a dozen, of the principal witches that have been condemned.
Mather quickly completed his account of the trials Wonders of the Invisible World and it was given to Phips when he returned from the fighting in Maine in early October.
Increase Mather and other ministers sent a letter to the Court, " The Return of Several Ministers Consulted ," urging the magistrates not to convict on spectral evidence alone ( spectral evidence was later ruled inadmissible, which caused a dramatic reduction in the rate of convictions and may have hastened the end of the trials ).
Mather and well
Highly influential because of his prolific writing, Mather was a force to be reckoned with in secular, as well as in spiritual, matters.
The movement for an independent agency to oversee these federal lands was spearheaded by business magnate and conservationist Stephen Mather, as well as J. Horace McFarland.
Her main literary influences are Dickinson, Charles Olson and early Puritan writers like Cotton Mather, as well as minimalist artists such as Agnes Martin and historians such as Richard Slotkin.
Later histories, with few exceptions, recounted events from a similar perspective, restating arguments first used by the war's military leaders, such as John Underhill and John Mason, as well the Puritan divines Increase Mather and his son Cotton Mather.
However, Cave contends that Mason and Underhill's eyewitness accounts, as well as the contemporaneous histories of Mather and Hubbard, were more " polemical than substantive.
Following intensive medical studies while on furlough in 1927, Mather returned to China to concentrate on medical work as well as on translations, grammars, and dictionaries of Mongolian languages.
Lane was intrigued by Mather's letter, made inquiry, and found that Mather was well thought of by Lane's friends — and had, like Lane, attended the University of California.
The event became well known, due in part to the account of Cotton Mather in his Magnalia Christi Americana.
Mather specialized in stock cars, but built other types of cars as well, including boxcars.
The museum has displays which highlight the mission of the base when it was active, as well as neighboring bases such as Beale AFB, Travis AFB and the since closed Mather AFB.
The shooting and the aftermath were well publicized at the time, due mostly to the notoriety of Dave Mather.
Mather and before
Purely through the use of his reason, Hayy goes through all the gradations of knowledge before emerging into human society, where he revealed to be a believer of Natural religion, which Cotton Mather, as a Christian Divine, identified with Primitive Christianity.
He was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards ( 23 March 1940 ), before joining No. 8 ( Guards ) Commando with whom he sailed ( 31 January 1941 ) to the Middle East with Colonel Bob Laycock's Layforce, ( whose Commando officers included Evelyn Waugh, Randolph Churchill, Philip Dunne, Carol Mather, David Stirling and many distinguished others ).
Dead Kennedys lead singer, Jello Biafra, commenting I never thought I'd hear a psychedelic slime band more hardcore than the Green Fuzz, but here they are. The band however fell apart again with Mather leaving, before the single was released in June 1983.
Mather was educated at Paisley Grammar School and Greenock High School before attending the University of Glasgow.
Leigh played at several minor grounds before moving to Mather Lane in 1889.
Mather House was a favorite choice for hard-partying varsity athletes before housing assignments were randomized by the school.
Campbell was a copywriter for advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather before he quit in 1971, aged 26, to visit India, and pursue an ambition to become a journalist.
Mather seems to have spent time in various places in New Mexico and Texas before settling in Dallas, Texas, in December.
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