Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusading U. S. merchant of church supplies, Horace Lytton Varian, president of Baltimore's Ammidon & Co., the Sheffield incident was very satisfying. Mr. Varian, an Episcopal church usher himself, has no high opinion of some churchgoers. He calls those who do not give liberally "snitchers" and "ecclesiastical lice." As an expert on collections who knows that open plates do not encourage largess in the U. S. he predicted last week that in Sheffield Mr. Ashcroft's 20% increase would soon dwindle...
Less than 1% of U. S. churches use alms bags. Such bags, stretched on wooden frames, contain openings too small to admit the hand of a thief (and Churchman Varian declares there are plenty of thieves). Lately Ammidon & Co., which markets collection plates and hence has nothing to lose, began advertising alms bags in the church press. But Ammidon & Co.'s crusade has been fruitless. To date the firm has sold two pairs of bags, both to a church in the tropics which had experienced a wave of alms thefts...
...doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that Catholics should attend mass, if it is humanly possible, every Sunday and every holy day. Six years ago the Congregation of Sacred Rites ruled that this religious duty cannot be fulfilled by listening to mass by radio. Last week Pope Pius XI found reason to suspend this rule. He granted permission to prelates in Rightist Spain to broadcast mass, so that Catholics in Leftist Spain, where there is no public worship, need not be deprived of religious service...
...mild-mannered, lofty-minded Anglican is Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil, 68-brother of Viscount Cecil and of the Bishop of Exeter-for 26 years an M. P. for Oxford University, now provost of Eton. Living in a stratosphere of piety, Lord Hugh regards the Established Church as above and apart from England's Protestant sects. "Scandalous"' it was, to him, when some years ago the Bishop of Liverpool announced that he would let Unitarians be guest preachers in his cathedral. Last week in London, in a speech before the Assembly of the Church of England, Churchman Cecil...
Before the Assembly was a proposal to repeal a church law which, since the reign of Henry VIII, has forced the Church of England to consecrate any and all bishops appointed by the Crown (i.e., the Government). Speaking in favor of this, Lord Hugh reminded his fellows that the present Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, is a Unitarian, as are all his family. Said Churchman Cecil: "Whatever function he is called upon to perform under the Constitution, the present Prime Minister performs it thoroughly and conscientiously. Nevertheless ... he is ... a Unitarian Christian,* and it certainly does seem to me . . . that...