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...feet on W. 122nd St.) Its nave, 100 feet wide, will run north and south, parallel with the Hudson River. Its main entrance will be at the south end through a bell tower facing the Drive. Parishioners will have a turn to their left, after entering, to face the altar. They will have about 2,500 seats at their disposal, another insistence of Dr. Fosdick...
...clean-cut rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. Ann's in Brooklyn that last October the General Convention of his Church (the Convention that deposed, in absentia, Bishop William Montgomery Brown for his heresies) elected him bishop, and last week, as he knelt before his own altar, seven bishops laid hands on him, consecrated him the 150th living bishop of that Church. At the end of the month he will leave with his family for his new duties as Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Mexico, with exhortations from his fellow bishops to represent not only his Church...
...first was the day on which I led the prettiest little country lassie in a hamlet upState to the altar and we were married...
...granted. People suspect a fake in the picture of the amateur athlete, burning with desire to do his duty by the public, yet faced by the necessities of bread and butter. Presumably, the amateur turns his back on Mammon and unselfishly offers his talents and his time on the altar of public service. Growing boys are crying out for an athletic example, old men's eyes will flash with ancient fire at the spectacle of his skill and might, young girls will realize that none but the athlete deserves the fair. Nevertheless, he is flat broke. The adulating world...
Colonel H. Anthony Dyer of Providence roused the congress to a high pitch of religious fervor by speaking of the French custom of reserving the sacrament on the altar and indicating its presence with a red light. Said he: "No matter how beautiful is the building, no matter how eloquent the words of the preacher, a church cannot give us the feeling of reverence without the presence of the red light...