Word: churches
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President Eliot then rose. He thanked the speakers for their kind appreciation of his assistance. He went on to say that, though he had been brought up in the Unitarian Church, he had been induced to adopt the position towards the Catholics he has always maintained by the marked signs of development discernible in their church. Although the Roman Catholics have always had the reputation of being conservative and formalistic, he desired to point out that they have not been unprogressive. He instanced the evolution of the modern Roman Mass out of the Coptic Mass, marked by the conversion...
...reception in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7.30 o'clock. All men in the University interested in Christian Science, especially Freshmen and newcomers, are cordially invited. Talks will be given by Bliss Knapp '01, C.S.B., Member of the Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, J. E. Sedman '03, Reader of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Cambridge; E. C. Johnson '03, and C. F. Stevens '09, president of the society...
President Eliot said, in closing, that one of our greatest problems here is that millions feel that all churches and all religions have been used to justify and compensate for the social wrongs of this world. These people want their rights now, not later, and therefore belong to no church. On the other hand, we have certain advantages in this country which are possessed by few others; for example, the universal use of voluntary associations for religious and charitable purposes. Last of all we should aim for the unity of spirit which we are how seeking here, and the goal...
...Paul's Cathedral, Bishop of Stepney, and in 1901 Bishop of London. It is as Bishop of Stepney, in the east part of London, that the bishop is best known to the London poor. He had been known primarily as a rough and ready member of the Church, ever willing to mingle with the poorest of the slums, without family influence at court, and accustomed to meet all comers in religious controversy in the great meetings in Victoria Park. But suddenly, in 1901, he was raised to a position second in importance only to the archbishoprics of Canterbury and York...
ecclesiastical diocese of the Anglican Church in the world with its 600 parishes and 1500 clergy. His present station gives him even in secular rank precedence over a baron, entities him to a seat in the House of Lords, and makes him spiritual adviser of the royal family...