Word: anglicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense of hopelessness in listening to this report. . . . The resolution offered on war does not even mention the name of God. I am no extreme pacifist, but this looks like a straddling of both sides of the fence-just what might be expected from a body of the Anglican communion...
...true scholar whose great specialty has been Church Unity and who has been neither too downright Catholic for the Protestants nor too thoroughgoingly Protestant for the Catholics. He has a background such as might at once lend to a U. S. Archbishopric the character acquired by the Anglican ones through the centuries. He has a home in Providence full of antiques and paintings, a large library, a summer home in Massachusetts, and a costly cope (capelike ecclesiastical vestment) which excited much comment at last year's Catholic Congress in Philadelphia, whither he had it shipped in an enormous packing...
Peeking through the windows of the chapter house of Montreal's Anglican Cathedral one day last week, newshawks discerned purple episcopal robes flashing dimly. Within the shadowy Cathedral which was locked, barred and bolted, little knots of laymen and churchmen gathered whispering. No speeches were permitted in the election they were holding to fill the primacy of the Church of England in Canada. This lordship of 1,232,000 Anglicans had been vacant since the death last summer of Most Rev. Clarendon Lamb Worrell, Archbishop of Nova Scotia. Once held according to seniority, the Primacy became elective under...
...college in the Cathedral. Five times did the names on the slate fail of a majority vote. Then on the sixth slate presented the electors agreed upon Rt. Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, 58, bishop of Niagara and Toronto. Born in England like most of Canada's 1,600 Anglican clergymen, he was educated in Toronto and Lennoxville, Que., held rectorships in Toronto and Hamilton, became bishop...
...Having preached this summer to large congregations at City Temple he commented: "Religiously, it is a dry time in England. No great voices are speaking and there is no stir among the dry leaves of theology. Never have I seen such dearth and deadness. My impression is that the Anglican church is dead and knows it, and that the free churches are dead and do not know it-but they are finding out. A famous theologian told me yesterday that the churches cannot go on as they are for more than 20 years...