Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHARLES KINGSLEY-Margaret Farrand Thorp-Princeton University Press ($3). Amiable biography of the Victorian novelist-preacher-reformer who became the Queen's chaplain and paragon. Macmillan's most profitable novelist, he is little known today except as the author of The Water-Babies...
...Philadelphia, Rev. John Robbins Hart of midcity St. Stephen's Episcopal Church heard his secretary observe that a number of local churches were being "put in mothballs." In no time lively, curly-headed Dr. Hart, longtime unofficial chaplain of the University of Pennsylvania, was propagandizing among his colleagues for an Anti-Mothball Society. Motto: DON'T SLOW UP. Last week the Society had more than a score of participating churches, busy not only in organizing steady services but in promoting an inter-church tennis tournament, an employment agency, weekly interdenominational stunt nights. At St. Stephen's stunt...
...mellow voice of the Very Reverend Albert Victor Baillie, Dean of Windsor, Chaplain of the Order, led the knights through their service, brightened by the silvery piping of St. George's choir. When it was over the worshippers moved to St. George's Hall in the Castle. There they banqueted beneath the banners of the 26 original knights and the coats-of-arms of every knight in the Order since 1350. They noticed that two of the shields were blank-those of the Duke of Monmouth who rebelled against James II and the pro-Irish Duke of Ormonde...
Best-known speaker to the convention was Chicago's Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart, who restated for the chaplains the arguments they knew well as to why Christians could be obligated to go to war. Chaplain William A. Sessions of Fort Lind, N. D. was billed to show how he led CCC boys in singing with his expensive accordion, but someone stole the instrument when he laid it down for a moment. For the third year the chaplains elected as their president Dr. Arlington Aice McCallum, reserve chaplain, energetic rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Washington...
...used to be Calvin Coolidge's pastor in Washington, and was brought to San Francisco in 1933 by a potent Californian, onetime Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. Methodist Lowther is tall, hawk-faced, spare, a liberal and a pacifist. Congregationalist Pierce is plump, jolly, a Wartime chaplain (see col. 2), American Legionary and 100% Republican. While Dr. Lowther was struggling to make a go of his hotel-church. Dr. Pierce, who said he "never liked a church without a problem," was engaged in increasing attendance at First Congregational Church, which had slipped during Depression despite the fact...