Word: blest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Kilpatrick is valuable because he is so irritating a part of the school-system; as it writhes under his pricks it may yet fashion a pearl. Thrice blest is Columbia's selection of him to give the series of lectures. It gives him a pulpit for his doctrines and affords his many supporters a chance to hear him teach once more. To an equal extent the University increases its honor and reputation...
...limitation of debate, parliamentary bullying from the moderator's chair, celebrating the Lord's Supper, reciting the Apostles' Creed, prayer ("When misused to shelve important issues or gain an unfair advantage over opponents in debate, it is a very objectionable thing") and singing such hymns as Blest Be the Tie That Binds ("When it is dragged in at unexpected times, it often marks some particularly vicious and unbrotherly...
...blest are those who from their labors rest...
...blest fountain of thy blood, Incarnate God, I fly: Here let me wash my spotted soul, From crimes of deepest...
...stoutly low church. Sociologically it was, in the words of liberal delegates, "yes-but." Rancor flared only briefly during its good-humored deliberations, and just before adjourning Low Churchman Roswell Page of Virginia joined with High Churchman Clifford P. Morehouse of Milwaukee in leading the House of Deputies in "Blest Be the Tie That Binds." Then the delegates drifted off home, leaving only a scattered 800 to gather in vast Convention Hall to hear the Pastoral Letter which always ends an Episcopal Convention...