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...from its cheapening by would-be wits, e.g., the golfer who specified: "Scatter me well over the tenth green at the club. It's been my nemesis so often I want to haunt the place." The Rev. Geoffrey Hilder called ash-scattering "pagan -even if it is utilitarian." Canon Cyril Sansbury denounced "sprinkling someone's remains in his own rose garden . . . in hope that dear George who died last year would grow up into new roses next year. I call this a kind of pantheism...
...anti-socialist too." The Rev. Dr. Vigo Auguste Demant, 56, Canon of Christ Church in Oxford, thus predicted the public reaction to his series of eight 40-minute lectures over the BBC's uncompromisingly highbrow Third Program. Last week, as the series ended, Canon Demant had made such a hit that the BBC was planning to put him on its middlebrow Home Service next fall...
...What Canon Demant had said over the air he had already said to students at Oxford University, where last year he became Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology. Calling his treatise Religion and the Decline of Capitalism, anticapitalist, anti-socialist Demant set out to diagnose the basic troubles of the time...
...Governeur P. Hance there was plenty of Christian work to do. Last week in Gibsonia, Pa. some 2,000 Episcopal churchmen and laymen, including Bishop Austin Pardue of Pittsburgh and Canon Bernard Iddings Bell of Chicago, gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of St. Barnabas' Free Home which during the last year fed, advised and housed 151 young boys and old men who were poor...
...church for the coming year: the Rev. Dr. Hugh Ivan Evans, Ohio-born pastor for 26 years of the Westminster Church in Dayton. Then the Presbyterians set to work on the agenda. They warned church members against contracting marriages with Roman Catholics under conditions imposed by modern Roman canon law, especially as these conditions involve a promise to have their children brought up in a religious system which they themselves cannot accept...