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Last week, on the campus of Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio, Anglican Matthews gave a more specific warning to the National Council of Churches' Assembly on African Affairs: South Africans are drifting toward bitter extremes, and "it seems to be the tendency of the church to be silent or hesitant to speak out." Ahead of 50-year-old Zachariah Matthews now is a year's teaching tour at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary as Henry W. Luce Visiting Professor of World Christianity, a chance to let U.S. churchmen hear, and reflect on, some of the lessons...
...Negroes would violate a Tennessee law requiring racial segregation in schools. The faculty members promised to give the trustees until June 1953 to reconsider, before their resignations took effect. The trustees' position, they said, is "untenable in the light of Christian ethics and of the teaching of the Anglican communion...
Crockford's critic noted the tendency of Anglican bishops to add a cross in front of their signature-"another imitation of Rome. When added by hand, it generally takes the form of a plus sign . . . It is now common to hear bishops referred to in the style of 'plus Aubrey' or 'plus Brian,' which invites the comment that, in many cases, 'minus' would be more appropriate...
...Both John Wesley and his brother Charles the co-founder of Methodism, were ordained a; Anglican priests. When John began to ordain ne Methodist ministers himself, Charles, who wanted only to reform the Church of England from within, strongly opposed him. Charles was such a thoroughgoing Anglican that, before he died, he announced his refusal to be buried in his Methodist brother's churchyard...
...would never have carried their party to power without the tall (6 ft.), ascetic intellectual from the Cotswolds who ate nothing but nuts, raw fruits and vegetables (because of colitis picked up when he was an ambulance driver in World War I), preached from the pulpits of his beloved Anglican Church, and stoked the fires of British Socialism with a passion like...