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...What famous English churchman and satirist went mad shortly after he had predicted that he would die at the top first, like...
...Perhaps they wanted to assert themselves before the younger lion of righteousness arrived, or perhaps to prepare for him a fitting atmosphere of holiness. Or perhaps they were truly indignant with no thought of Pittsburgh as the northern capital of Fundamentaland. Whatever the reason, ten Pittsburgh ministers left no churchman dubious, about the spirit that was in them when, last fortnight, they evoked a Pittsburgh Sunday-closing law dating from 1794 and protested loudly to their city's "safety director" that two Sunday concerts, planned by the newly-formed Pittsburgh civic symphony orchestra, would constitute that horrid thing...
...questionable, according to present indications, whether a chapel would fulfill these requirements. There is an alternate scheme which would beyond question fulfill them. By endowing a number of international scholarships, named for the dead, Harvard would not only satisfy the requirements of the non-church as well as the churchman; she would honor her fallen in a noble and useful endeavor toward training men in the international point of view, in broad sympathies and understanding, so that the lives of young men might not again be sacrificed on the battlefield...
...churchman was Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and the maiden who paused on his words was Uldine Utley...
...Ireland); Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Baron Dundas (onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount...