Word: accept
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...Abbey Chapel or comparable services of her choice. If neither of these alternatives is compatible with here conscience and reason, it shall then be the student's responsibility, in consultation with the Dean of the College Chapel, to determine which of other opportunities for spiritual growth she desires to accept, and to undertake...
...possible to cope with this atmosphere? Most girls say "yes," and appreciating the good aspects of Mount Holyoke, learn either to accept or to ignore its bad points. This teacher said no-"That's why I'm leaving at the end of the year...
...Methodists must accept the ordination of their clergy by the Episcopate and, implicitly, the Anglican principle of rule by bishops descended, by the laying on of hands, from the twelve Apostles. Wesley scoffed at this historic episcopal structure, and British Methodism is run by district chairmen, not bishops. Much against Wesley's own wishes, U.S. Methodists have always called their top officers bishops, but without recognizing the apostolic succession...
...Anglicans must accept disestablishment, persuading Parliament to pass a bill cutting the church off from the privileges and protection accorded it by the British government...
...Harold Roberts, chairman of the Methodist representatives, admitted that "radical adjustments are demanded of Methodists in the proposals we are putting forward." Perhaps the adjustments will be too radical. Four of Roberts' representatives signed a "dissentient" minority report, warning that many Methodists would be unable to accept such violations of tradition as episcopal organization. Wesley, the dissidents noted, called apostolic succession "a fable which no man ever did or could prove." Their conclusion: "To move from a Church committed to the evangelical faith into a heterogeneous body permitting, and even encouraging, unevangelical doctrines and practices, would be a step...