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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gulval, near Penzance, the Worshipful Company of Mead Makers paraded to the Gulval parish church, where a cup of mead was solemnly blessed. The mead had previously received the blessing of the British Board of Trade, which in its own quaint way hopes that mead exports will help earn a few of the dollars Britain needs (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Mead fell from fashion after the Reformation cut down the use of beeswax for church candles; apiarists, no longer able to sell their byproduct wax to the chandlers, found it unprofitable to make honey just for the mead makers...
...Affricans composed a blunt letter to Don Luciano: "It is with the greatest sorrow that we learn of your nomination as the parish priest of Affrico . . ." They sent a delegation to him, and another to the Catholic authorities in Bologna. On their weather-beaten, 17th Century church and on the rocky mountain road they put up big signs: "Affrico wants Don Giorgio . . . Don Giorgio, come back to your parish." Said a burly peasant: "If Don Giorgio doesn't come back, the carabinieri had better get themselves a barracks up here...
...this system, about a third of the children are in school. If the missions turn education.over to the government, it would have to be provided for everyone, and it would cost three times as much. But the missionaries are worried about doing this because they know that most new church members now come from the schools, rather than the oldtime evangelism. And they are also well aware of the dangers of secularization and government propaganda if they turn their schools over to the state...
...energetic, balding Everett C. Parker, 36. He was working for a radio station in Chicago when a Methodist minister asked him to help get a sponsor for a religious show. Parker became so interested in the field that he began experimenting with new program ideas, ended by getting 152 churches to cooperate in a regular broadcast. Parker quit his job to study for the ministry, was ordained a Congregational pastor in 1943, and began to devote his full time to the radio field. In 1944, with Yale's late James Rowland Angell, he set up the Joint Religious Radio...