Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four Mennonite bishops sat facing the congregation. One of them took seven Bibles, slipped a paper marker into each, put the Bibles on the pulpit. Seven men, chosen by the congregation, came forward, took the Bibles and returned to their seats. All this was in accordance with Proverbs 16:33, The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. The seven men with their scriptures walked back to the pulpit. Drawing out the lots, the bishop saw that the first three were blank, and to three candidates he said: "Thou art free...
...JAMES A. BISHOP...
...small nondenominational chapel which, between five rows of pews and the altar, has a wide floor space in which infantile paralytics who cannot kneel to pray may worship in their wheel chairs. Last week, the President and his party attended dedicatory services conducted by Atlanta's Episcopal Bishop Henry J. Mikell. C. Back from a three-week lecture tour on the West Coast, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in Warm Springs after a plane trip from Seattle via Atlanta...
...Ballard '39, B. F. Bart, Jr. '38, R. S. Bart '40, P. L. Bernstein '40, R. H. Bishop, 3d '38, H. L. Blackwell, Jr. '39, G. F. Bogardus '39, N. H. Brisson '39, J. J. Cabitor '38, E. L. Cherbonnier '39, J. R. Cooke '40, E. B. Crohn '40, J. H. Davis...
...Council, which Goodhue is joining as the youngest class representative, includes 65 agents, among whom are such men as Bishop William Lawrence '71, Judge Robert Grant '73, Charles C. Burlingham '79, John L. Saltonstall '00, John Richardson '08, Robert T. P. Storer '14, and Forrester A. Clark...