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While our Roman Catholic brethren will tell you that they did not like your article about the reconversion of William Purcell Witcutt to Protestantism, I like it very much...
...much of the pulling & hauling between parents of different faiths. Only occasionally do parents split the difference (" 'The oldest [of our children] is Catholic and the youngest Lutheran' "). Sometimes a family turns into a denominational grab bag. Said one girl: "Mother is a member of the United Brethren church ... I have one sister who is Christian Science, one who is Free Methodist, and I am Lutheran.' " When the interviewer asked how this worked out when they were together, she replied: " 'We have to leave off the subject of religion altogether ... I am sure...
...church. When the constitution was finally passed after five days of heated debate, Bishop Wurm declared: "The new German Evangelical Church is not yet a mighty cathedral; it is still a modest hut. But it is a hut in which the gospel is at home, and in which all brethren of the Protestant churches may live and grow together...
...Elected as new Council president white-haired Bishop John Samuel Stamm, 70, of the Evangelical United Brethren. Son of a lay preacher, jovial, ham-handed John Stamm grew up on a Kansas farm with an early hankering to be a soldier in the Spanish-American War (he was "just too young for the job"). As good an administrator as he is a preacher, President-elect Stamm has served as vice president of the Federal Council for the past two years, under the presidency of Layman Charles P. Taft. He doubts that his administration will "set the world on fire." Said...
...three of his earlier novels, Cozzens presented the hodgepodge of the medical profession (The Last Adam), the ministry (Men and Brethren), the law (The Just and the Unjust). In Guard of Honor he not only shows again his fine descriptive talents but boldly tangles with two of the toughest subjects of the day-the nature of war, and racial intolerance. Guard of Honor is a big, fat book-much bigger than Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal or Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement-bigger, and far better...