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...heard in Manhattan by some 1,000 people gathered at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria; elsewhere by smaller gatherings in perhaps 500 U. S. cities. To the Manhattan luncheon meeting went the British and Belgian Ambassadors to the U. S., the French Consul General, the Netherlands Minister, many a churchman. Chairman was that best-beloved of bumbling speakers, lank Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Episcopal Church (who attributes his oratorical lack to the fact that for 25 years as a missionary he preached in Japanese only...
...institution has never seemed both ered by Harry Ward's bizarre (for a churchman) political views: Union Theo logical Seminary, headed by rich, well born, liberal Henry Sloane Coffin (Skull & Bones, Yale '97). At Union, Red Harry Ward may presumably go on teaching Christian Ethics so long as he is of reason ably sound mind and body...
Guest of honor at a dinner at the Astor Hotel given by The Churchman, Protestant
Episcopal magazine, which gave her its annual award for "Promotion of Good Will and Understanding Among All Peoples," she heard herself praised for her "genius of goodness," heard even more hearty praise from The Churchman's Dr. Shipler...
...Against him across the Potomac was an army which could probably have taken Washington in the first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln...