Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Form of Substitution. Since he began his work, two important things have happened to Leonard Cheshire. Arthur, his first patient, was a Roman Catholic, and when it came time for him to die, Cheshire dug out a Catholic book: One Lord, One Faith, by Vernon Johnson, an Anglican minister's strongly partisan account of his conversion to Roman Catholicism. In the early morning hours after Arthur's death, Cheshire read it through and knew that at last he had found the authority he had been looking for. "After the war," he says...
Cheshire studied the Anglican answer to the book he had read, but he was not impressed. "The Church of England attitude really was: 'If the Church of Rome is good, why did it have the terrible Popes it had?' But despite its Popes, the Church of Rome has gone on. That seems to argue a certain durability about it." Cheshire became a Roman Catholic...
...London's dockside district of Stepney at 6:30 pm., once a month the Rev. Cecil Edwyn Young starts making the rounds. Among the cheery, bleary gatherings, he finds some of the best customers for his parish paper at threepence a throw. The customers, in turn, find smiling Anglican Young's publication like no parish paper they ever saw before; it is crammed with up-to-the-minute movie reviews, theater chitchat and interviews with Hollywood stars, usually illustrated by photographs of the star and Interviewer Young. The advertising columns carry out the un-Puritan atmosphere with...
...night in 1709, a gang of bullies set fire to a thatched cottage in Epworth, England, where their censorious Anglican vicar lay sleeping. The Rev. Samuel Wesley and his family escaped in their nightshirts, but one small son got left behind in the rush. It took a valiant rescue effort to save five-year-old John Wesley from the flames, and when he was restored to his mother, she is supposed to have offered a prayer: "See-is not this a brand, plucked from the burning...
...stands 5 ft. 2 in., bears an astonishing likeness to the many preserved portraits of his hero. But hero worship creeps in, and Evangelist Wesley is too often depicted as an 18th century version of Tough Guy James Cagney-deflating the dandies of Bath, puncturing the pomposities of the Anglican Bishop of Bristol, brushing off a highwayman, slicing through a murderous mob of Cornish fisherfolk. In general, the film lacks the dramatic effectiveness of the Lutherans' successful Martin Luther (TIME, Sept. 14), but it should be a popular and acceptable program piece for Methodist churches for months to come...