Word: archdeacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first day of the Convocation of Canterbury in Westminster's Church Assembly Hall-presided over by the Archbishop, Geoffrey Francis Fisher-the divines were discussing the report of a church commission on the Ministry of Healing. The Venerable Maxwell Dunlop, 59, archdeacon of Aston, rose to express his distress at the report's appendix on the subject of exorcism. "Apparently no member of the commission has questioned whether demons really exist," said Archdeacon Dunlop...
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...
...dead held an important place in the community, in which case "more priests or a bigger choir than usual" might be in order.) Specifications for the bishop's standard funeral will correspond to the undertakers' Class 4-two priests, one cantor, two choirboys, no deacon or archdeacon, no draperies or crape, six candles on the altar and eight at the catafalque. The church fee will be a flat $15; undertakers will have to make what profit they can on extras outside the church-ornate coffins, luxurious hearses, etc. The dead whose families cannot afford to pay even...
...Englishman who became one of the first flying Frenchmen (99 ft. in 1907), champion cyclist, auto racer, painter, planemaker, first man to fly a heavier-than-air machine over New York City (1908); of a heart ailment; in Paris. In 1908 Farman won the 50,000-franc Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize by flying (in a closed circle) the first kilometer-in-air over Europe, nine months later made the first city-to-city flight, a hop of 17 miles from Chålons-sur-Marne to Reims. One of the first designers to utilize such basic devices as the aileron...