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...whom are ordained ministers, represent eight faiths. Students learn about preaching and praying from Presbyterian Coffin, Presbyterian Hugh Black, Baptist Fosdick. Specialty of Congregationalist Erdman Harris is expounding the technique by which he has worked successfully among students and young people. Methodist Harry Ward and Reformed Churchman Reinhold Niebuhr devote themselves to the church's social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps up to date by such studies...
Bishop of New Jersey since 1915 has been Rt. Rev. Paul Matthews, portly, white-crowned High Churchman, onetime Dean of the Cathedral in Cincinnati, into whose Procter (Ivory Soap) family he married. Currently Bishop Matthews is engrossed with a slowly rising, million-dollar cathedral of his own, to which Trenton's bridge-building Roeblings have been generous. Nearing 70, Bishop Matthews has indicated a wish to retire. The man who has served as his Bishop Coadjutor, Albion Williamson Knight, retired last autumn because of his years (76). Offered this post with the right of succession, Manhattan...
...Bishop Robert Erskine Campbell, whose health had been wrecked after ten years on the job. Said Bishop Campbell: "Someone else should have a chance at it." The someone else whom the Bishops elected, after seriously considering withdrawing entirely from Liberia, was Rev. Leopold Kroll. This tall, hearty, deep-voiced churchman of 61 has missionized among men of many colors: red Wisconsin Indians, brown Hawaiians, black Haitians...
...late reaching San Francisco. Churchmen of the San Francisco area gathered at a large dinner in Oakland, heard speeches and telegrams greeting the guest of honor who was not there. Next morning when the steamship was finally berthed. Dr. Kagawa did not walk down the gangplank and a frantic churchman telegraphed Secretary of Labor Perkins: "EARNESTLY IMPLORE YOU TELEPHONE ANGEL ISLAND EXPEDITING DR KAGAWA'S EYE EXAMINATION...
...Portland last week after taking 24 ballots, Episcopal clergy and laymen elected Very Rev. Benjamin Dunlap Dagwell, 45, to be Bishop of Oregon. Pennsylvania-born Churchman Dagwell held pastorates in Keyport, N. J. and Pueblo, Colo, before going to Denver and its Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, where at 34 he was one of the youngest Episcopal deans in the U. S. Hard-working Dean Dagwell is chairman of the Denver Bureau of Public Welfare. Said he of his election: "It leaves nothing to strive for, except to hold on to one's job through good work...