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...pawn, a dean can check, sometimes stalemate a bishop. Bishop Manning, a High Churchman, and his Low-Church dean, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, frequently checked each other.* In 1929, Dean Robbins resigned, was succeeded by the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates, benevolent but bumbling. Last November Dean Gates died...
...Wolfe's fine baritone will have no difficulty in filling St. John's vast, echoing nave. A militant churchman, Dean De Wolfe picked St. Patrick's Breastplate, most stirring hymn in the Episcopal arsenal, for his installation, preached his inaugural sermon on the text, "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory...
...churchman revealed that indeed they have...
Church Militant. Many & many a churchman favored immediate intervention on the Allied side. ∧ Before 600 delegates from his 266 parishes New York's Episcopal Bishop Manning declared at the Synod House of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine last week: "We are facing the most stupendous crisis in the last 2,000 years. ... In such a situation, can any Christian or any American be neutral?" - In Albany, N. Y., Bishop George Ashton Oldham (Episcopal) went Bishop Manning one better. The word "neutrality," said he, is "an abhorrent thing," and "isolation" is "a dangerous anachronism...
...Ralph T. Templin of Muttra-sent a manifesto to the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow. Wrote they: "During the earlier phases of the missionary movement, it was natural to think compartmentally, religion in one compartment, science in another, politics in a third. Sir John Bowring, as a devout churchman, could write the familiar hymn, 'In the Cross of Christ I glory,' and, as the representative of empire, sign, perhaps with the same pen, the treaties forcing the nefarious opium trade upon China. . . . The old smug compartmentalism is gone, never to return...