Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., last week came a strange suggestion to the nuns of his diocese. "Don't vote," he said in effect. His reason: the obvious hostile comment upon nuns' voting would be that they were helping to swell the Smith vote total and that the Church was massed for Smith; this he wished to avoid...
...meagerness of thank offerings collected on the first night was disheartening. Worse still, a mere 2,000 slummy people paid admission the second evening. Worst of all, there came a rival female evangelist from New Jersey, a resolute woman with the mien of an inspired laundress-the Reverend "Bishop" Mrs. Mollie Alma White, founder and primate of the Pillar of Fire Church. Bishop White, who has thousands of disciples ("Holy Jumpers") in the British Isles, clearly regarded Mrs. McPherson as a poacher upon her preserves or worse. Squired by two male Deacons, the Reverend Bishop sat herself down...
...great sub rosa concern of Protestant Episcopal bishops, priests, laymen who met at Washington last week for their 49th triennial convention was hierarchy. Nominally the bishops are co-equal with John Gardner Murray of Maryland as presiding bishop. But a growing faction of Episcopalians love regimentation. Particularly the Anglicans among them talk of creating archbishops. Others oppose them tooth and claw. Of this denominational stress little appeared when the convention opened last week and little of anything else. The time was spent shaking hands and preparing for contest of the next week...
...Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of Western New York, Buffalo, New York...
...Methodist ministers of Ohio. Reason: "In the name of Ohio Methodism I desire to report that the services of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt in Ohio have produced a profound impression on the moral forces of the entire state"-Bishop T h e o d o r e S u m m e r s H e n d e r s o n . Florence Reed, actress. Reason: "No wise housewife would discharge an efficient d o m e s t i c s e r v a n t . & a m p ; q u o t ; Louis J. Tabor, Master...