Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Dean of Westminster, read the Anglican funeral service, intoning majestically: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory...
Nevertheless, faith healing has become so much the mode in Britain that last week the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed the Bishop of Southwark to preside over a council of six celebrated doctors and six clergymen to advise the Church "on all matters related to spiritual healing and healing missions." In this step some people thought they perceived a formal recognition of spiritual healing. Medicos, clerics, were asked for their opinions...
...which Bishop Brent of Western New York and Bishop Gailor of Tennessee unsuccessfully divided most of the votes between them, there came a sudden rush of enthusiasm for the onetime bookkeeper of Salem, Ala. He became unanimously "Primus"? an office in a small degree comparable to that of Archbishop of Canterbury. .Elected, he bowed his head in prayer for a long period. Interviewed, he said: "... a man feels, a sense of insufficiency. I haven't got over that feeling yet." Said Bishop Brent: "We have chosen one of the most missionary- minded men in the Church. . . . We can safely...
...delegates filed in and seated themselves. Promptly their dignity was sharply and strikingly assailed. In the opening address, they were berated by the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, D. D., D. C. L., LLD., Prelate of the Order of the Garter from 1895 until 1903, and since that time Archbishop of Canterbury...
...Said the Archbishop, Primate of all England: "Complaints of the inadequacy of our sermons on life and fact are beyond dispute . . . Sermons have not kept pace . . . with the increased intelligence, thoughtfulness and knowledge possessed by the average citizen . . . It is intolerable that we clergy should leave it to the daily newspapers or the popular novelist to give guidance and suggest sturdy thought . . . We need more midnight oil, more forenoon hours with closed doors, steady study, and big notebooks . . . The educated hearer not unnaturally resents . . . an easy thinness of thought...