Word: canonizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman: onetime U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper. Treasurer: U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. Other committeemen: Bishop of Washington James Edward Freeman, Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Uavison, Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, Assistant Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr., Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, etc., etc. † The cathedral received $250,000 from the will of the late Banker George Fisher Baker, filed last week...
...Canon City, Col., boys who thought Edgar Watson, 16, was gullible told him his girl wanted to see him in a vacant house of the neighborhood. Edgar Watson went there, found people who posed as the girl's angry parents, died of fright...
Divorce. A commission appointed six years ago by the Protestant Episcopal Church to consider divorce published a revised "Canon 43-of Matrimony" which will be recommended to the Church's general convention in Denver, Col. next September. Chief points of difference between old Canon 43 and the tentative new one are: The new one lifts the only ground for divorce the Episcopal Church recognizes-adultery; it permits, by inference, divorced persons to partake of all the church rites and sacraments-Holy Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Communion-and permits them to be married a second time by an Episcopal clergyman, though...
Said the Commission: "In making this statement nothing new is added to the present law of the Church. . . . The present Canon 43 and the Marriage Service of the Church both assume that marriage may be declared null and void. . . . The door for remarriage of divorced persons is by no means thrown wide open. . . . The Commission . . . considers this proposed canon as only tentative, and desires to give it the widest possible publicity for the purpose of invoking discussion and criticism. . . ." Birth Control- As did the Lambeth Conference (Anglican, Episcopal) last year and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ...
...propositions are more liberal than the former canon on marriage, and endeavor to "make for happy marriages by teaching the young the meaning of married life." For those who did not have this opportunity, Professor Beale would require a signed certificate that each party had discussed the meaning of marriage with an Episcopalian clergyman before the final ceremony. In these ways he is endeavoring to minimize the possibility of divorce...