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...author, the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, 76, has been pegging away steadily at the subject for the last 13 years. As secretary of Yale University (1899-1921) and canon of the Episcopal cathedral in Washington, D.C. (1924-39), Dr. Stokes has written and compiled several other volumes of scholarship and research. But in Church and State he has produced every scholar's dream-a definitive work...
Porhaps the most successful (and most unique) part of the program was a series of glees, canons, and catches. These are unaccompanied choral pieces vaguely related to rounds, and they are sometimes intricately constructed. The "Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club of Adams House" picked its way gingerly through four glees, a canon, and a catch, accompanying its singing with stage actions such as shrugged shoulders and waving forefingers. This organization claims descent from the original Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club (1761) which punished sour notes by making the offender drink a glass of wine. "It is this spirit...
...final number of the evening calls for audience participation in a canon by Dufay called "In the Manner of Trumphets." Two trombones will play antiphonally while the audience will sing their respective voice parts as written on the program...
...Social Club. Such "churchianity," says Bell, has been an especially besetting sin of Episcopalians: "The Episcopal Church, by and large, has tended too much to exalt itself and minimize God." The disease, as Canon Bell describes it, was partly inherited from the nation's founders, who, in Virginia and other colonies, treated the Church as "a conventional meeting place of the better-off landowners." The 19th Century waves of non-English immigrants, he feels, only made matters a little worse, because in the mixed society that resulted the Episcopalians soon came to regard themselves as patricians...
...Warning. In the Episcopal Church, Canon Bell finds some encouraging signs that there is less churchianity. But it seems to him that another branch of Christianity, the ecumenical movement, "is plainly being tempted to go in for it in a large...