Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking of their religion, Luther continued, "The Lapps fear the unknown, and their religion for the most part is only a nominal one." The greater part of the Lapps profess to the doctrines of the Lutheran Church...
...wasn't so very long ago that a certain actor wandered about New York City looking for a clergyman who would consent to honor Joseph Jefferson, the Rip Van Winkle of a thousand stage productions, with the funeral rites of the Church. In at least two large cities of the East, there is no baseball played on Sunday, because the people remember the Fourth Commandment. In some places small loys still scatter and leave their marbles when the village parson walks down the street on Sunday afternoon...
...trouble His Majesty still further, came last week at St. Cuthbert's church, Darwen, Lancashire, an actual beginning of physical strife over the great spiritual issue. When the Rev. F. B. Lauria, Vicar of St. Cuthbert's, attempted with pro-Catholic technique the "sung Eucharist," some 200 pro-Protestant parishioners rose up with loud, spontaneous hymns to drown the chanting of the Eucharist. Soon they fell to shouting extracts from the old Prayer Book, to shaking angry fists. Police, hastily summoned, got Vicar Lauria safely away, but not until a booing mob of 1,000 had collected wrathfully...
...Protestant Episcopal Church is not established by the Government as is the Anglican Church in England. Otherwise its situation is largely parallel. High-church and low-church divisions obtain; pulpit-occupants are more likely than pew-sitters to swing to high-churchliness. Excitement in the U. S. was therefore stirred, last week, less by prospects of disestablishment in Great Britain than by the papal encyclical and its effects upon church unity...
...Right Rev. William Thomas Manning, Bishop of New York, like many a bishop inclined to deal pleasantly with the Roman hierarchy, uttered his dictum on the encyclical and upon church unity at the annual meeting of the Church Women's League for Patriotic Service in the Manhattan home of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, social bigwig. Said Bishop Manning: "We are living in very interesting times. . . . Great movements are going on all about us. ... I want to say that I hope no one will feel in the least discouraged or doubtful as to the progress of the movement [for union...