Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Father Trevor Huddleston, head of St. Peter's Anglican Mission in Johannesburg, first heard the news, he knew that for one of his students it meant the opportunity of a lifetime. As a result of a visit that Author Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton had made while in the U.S., Kent School in Connecticut was offering for the first time a scholarship to a South African boy, and Father Huddleston found just the lad to take it. Last April he began to make the arrangements to send a 16-year-old Negro named Stephen Ramasodi...
...passport had still not come. But every time Huddleston wrote or phoned the Ministry of the Interior, he merely got the stock answer that the matter was under consideration. Huddleston wired to a member of Parliament, and was promised an "investigation." He appealed to the Anglican Bishop of Pretoria, eventually got back from the Ministry the answer: "The matter is receiving attention." Finally he sent off one more telegram, and this time he received a letter from the Native Affairs Minister's private secretary accusing him of "crude methods." By last week it seemed obvious that the South African...
...lengthy pilgrimage to the 88 holy places of Buddhism on his native Japanese island of Shikoku, visiting each three times. But at the end of the last lap, having found no cure, he did what a devout Buddhist should not: he turned in at the gate of an Anglican missionary hospital...
There, although he stayed ten years, he found no cure, but he found a cause. He became a lay missionary in the Anglican Church in Japan and devoted himself to helping other leprosy victims. In March 1927, at the age of 35, he made his way to jungle-like Motobu Peninsula on northern Okinawa because he had heard fearful tales of the misery of Okinawa's leprosy sufferers...
...plunging necklines and backless dresses of modern brides are becoming an increasing distraction to clergymen officiating at weddings, the Rev. Leslie Aitken of Burley Vicarage, Leeds, England complained to his Anglican parishioners. "During the ceremony," the clergyman said, "the girls stand two steps below me . . . It's all terribly embarrassing...