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Onward Christian Soldiers. In Saskatchewan, a returned antitank battery explained why it was called the "Pious 65th": it boasted three Bishops, two Parsons, one Churchman and one Goodenough...
Since Archbishop Parker's day, many a good churchman has complained that the Table was outmoded. Year by year it began to look more oldfashioned. Some of the prohibited relationships now seem far from "incestuous and unlawful." But innovations take time. "He shall prick that annual blister, marriage with deceased wife's sister," was the musical complaint of the Fairy Queen of satirist W. S. Gilbert's lolanthe...
...High Churchman Wand will bring to his new job both scholarship and a firsthand knowledge of a clergyman's daily grind. London will also have a Bishop who speaks his mind. Sample: "If we wish to reform the nation, we must begin at the top with statesmen and politicians. I would like to see us governed by a government truly democratic . . . there should be an end to this outside government where the Prime Minister and his ministers go to Parliament with their minds already made up for them by outside influences...
...give up our Egyptian funerals, and make them Christian?" Thus, in its current issue, the Protestant Episcopal semimonthly Churchman. Said the Churchman...
...Said Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, didactic Episcopal churchman: "The modern American university . . . will not face fundamental moral issues. . . . It ignores God and thinks and acts as though man is a creature who only needs to know the right in order to do it. The result . . . is an academic befuddlement which makes American university education today not a guide out of confusion into order but only an additional source of confusion...