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...Cambridge, Mass., in 1934. After his ordination, he served a clerical apprenticeship at churches in Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. In 1946 he was called to the chaplaincy of Washing ton's Howard University, and five years later became a canon of Washington Cathedral. Until his consecration, Burgess was Archdeacon of Boston and supervisor of the Episcopal City Mission. Burgess was chosen for the suffragan bishopric over four white candidates on the first ballot at a convention of diocesan priests last September...
Never on Sunday. Since the Church of England is an established church, each parish church is bound by law to hold Sunday services, whether anyone attends or not. But to former Bishop of London John Wand (now canon of St. Paul's) and London's Archdeacon Oswin Gibbs-Smith, a third possibility presented itself: "Why not a church that could be there for the daytime City workers?" Sixteen of the 40 churches were set up on a new basis and called "Guild Churches"-closed on Sundays, open on weekdays, with emphasis on the lunch hour. A number...
...Modest Improvement. Barker had been lured by Africa since his childhood donations to church missionary work. He met his wife Margaret at medical school, and they left for Zululand together in 1945. Their assignment was St. Augustine's station, founded in the 1880s by an archdeacon who had earned local fame as a healer with one modest improvement on witch doctors' methods: he routed out decayed teeth with pliers instead of a spear or rusty nail. The hospital was 40 miles from the nearest railway; when the Barkers took over, it was an iron-roofed bungalow compound inhabited...
Promptly prelate after prelate popped up to refute Archdeacon Dunlop-and the Devil made his presence felt by disrupting the lighting mechanism that was supposed to flash each speaker's name; instead, letters began to go on and off at random, spelling nothing. Said the dean of Windsor, the Right Rev. Eric Hamilton: "I would rather believe that...
...Archdeacon Dunlop proposed that a commission be established to determine whether the church believes in the existence of the Devil or not, and as he spoke, the lighting system flashed on and off frantically. But the convocation turned the proposal down cold. The Anglican Church Times was delighted that the devil hunt had been headed off. "The Son of God had no doubt about the existence of such forces," it editorialized. "Where he was certain, it is hardly necessary for Christians to doubt...