Word: canonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Bernard Iddings Bell, Canon of Christian Education in the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, serves his God with a tough mind and a sharp tongue. Last week, in the unofficial Episcopal weekly, the Witness, High Churchman Bell was in top form at his favorite sport-mussing up ecclesiastical stuffed shirts...
Christians, says Canon Bell, have a tendency not only to exalt the Church as the end rather than the means of their religion, but "to make of it a covert in which to hide from Christ." All too many, he says, use the Church to cushion the impact of Christianity, as a small boy about to be spanked stuffs napkins in the seat of his pants. "Or, to change the comparison, we may seek to be inoculated against Christianity with a churchly solution of one part Christianity to 99 parts respectability and good-fellowship. Good-fellowship and respectability...
...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...