Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Joseph Fort Newton, Rector of the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, will conduct the services at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
Third was Dr. Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan. Smooth-faced, brown-eyed, athletic, this churchman, too, seemed to prefer the diocese in which he found himself, and declined...
...Henry Knox Sherrill, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, was Bishop Garland's first choice. A graduate of Yale, aged only 38, Dr. Sherrill is popular, attractive. During the War he was an A. E. F. chaplain. Offered the Philadelphia position last May, Dr. Sherrill graciously explained that he preferred to stay in Boston...
Fourth and last was Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. He, having considered the offered post for more than a month, followed what seemed to have become a precedent. His regrets to Bishop Garland were published last fortnight...
Inevitable was the parallel between Bishop Garland and Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. Both are bishops of wealthy Eastern dioceses. Both have had troubles, recently, in managing their churches. The Manning troubles centered about the resignation of Dean Howard Chandler Robbins (TIME, Jan. 14). Many Robbins-supporters believe that the Dean resigned because Bishop Manning, with whose high-church views Dean Robbins did not entirely hold, was "autocratic." Bishop Garland in Philadelphia is not "high church." But last week, many a Philadelphian, pondering the parallel, wondered if it was not a fear of "autocracy" that was keeping potential...