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Between the Protestants and Catholics is the Anglican Church (Protestant Episcopal in the U. S.), comparatively small (membership, some 1,250,000), comparatively poor, but with extraordinary social prestige and in an extraordinarily strategic political position. High-church Episcopalians pull toward Rome; low-church Episcopalians pull toward the other Protestant sects. An Episcopalian episode of last week showed clearly the sort of obstacle confronting the union of all brethren in Christ...
...Command. A non-sectarian Protestant organization calling itself the Christian Unity League (president, Baltimore's Dr. Peter Ainslie, Disciple of Christ) planned a conference in Manhattan for last week. Dr. Karl Reiland, Liberal Episcopal preacher, a member of the league, invited the conference to meet at his church, St. George's. A feature of the three-day meeting was to be a communion service conducted by the Presbyterian Liberal Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. When newspapers announced the service, those who knew Bishop William Thomas Manning's legalistic views wondered...
Never to be caught out on a point of church law, Bishop Manning consulted 77-year-old lawyer George Zabriskie, for 25 years Chancellor of the Diocese. Then he wrote Dr. Reiland a letter forbidding the service. The letter referred to the book of common prayer, last court of appeal in Episcopalian disputes, which says: "... No man shall be ... suffered to execute any of the said functions [of the ministry] . . . except ... he hath had Episcopal consecration or ordination." Said the bishop's letter: "I must earnestly beg you, and I do hereby officially admonish you, not to carry...
...These Carnal Things." Bishop Manning's letter, printed in Manhattan newspapers, elicited a reply from Dr. Coffin, who declared: "The ministry of the church in which I serve has as unbroken a tradition, reaching back to the earliest age, as any ministry in Christendom-if one cares to boast of these carnal things.† I would not willingly expose this ministry to such disparagement as appears to be put upon it by Bishop Manning...
...legal counsel: Lawyers Robert Fulton Cutting, civic-minded Manhattan millionaire (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927) and George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him that the prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop's; his moral position better. The communion service was shifted...