Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each Ascension Day all the choir boys and a "party of substantial men" must go to St. Clement Danes Church and hear a sermon on the text: "Cursed be he that transgresseth the bounds and doles of his neighbor." Then, led by the rector, the choir boys and the "substantial men" must make a tour of the parish boundaries. In order that they shall never forget just where the boundaries are, the Virgin Queen decreed that the substantial men must soundly bump the heads of the choir boys against each boundary mark...
...ruling was occasioned by a dispute over the right of women members of the church to address the convention, to cast votes. Dr. John William Porter, editor of the American Baptist, stormily opposed gallant Dr. Truett. "We go right against the Scriptures!" he warned his undisputed brethren. "We break a precedent of 2,000 years!" Dr. Truett silenced his brother by quoting the Southern Baptist constitution...
...highways and hedgerows of the U. S., as well as the fashionable avenues, have been combed to find a bishop coadjutor for the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. Four were asked, four refused. Rector Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston's Trinity Church preferred to stay in Boston. Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane, who was supposed to have relations in Philadelphia who would make that city attractive to him, preferred to stay in Spokane. Rector Russell Bowie of Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest...
Comfort to St. Paul's men was their knowledge that in 1921 Dr. Drury had been offered the rectorship of Trinity Church, Manhattan. No man before him had ever refused that election. But Dr. Drury did not hesitate to refuse it. At that time he explained that he would not, could not, leave his boys. Three-quarters of a century old, possessed of a rare tradition in its first headmaster, the late, great Dr. Henry Augustus Coit, St. Paul's is excelled by no U. S. school, emulated by many, equalled by only two or three. Although...
...name, a new figure, a new power, arrived last week in Chicago. All were bound up in the person of Homer Guck (pronounced "Guke"). Upon the resignation of Merrill Church Meigs as publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, William Randolph Hearst appointed Mr. Guck to the post...