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...Everywhere, audiences crowded upon them-a total last week of 300,000 people. Heading the team were Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, famed as an evangelist to high caste Hindus and author of Christ of the Indian Road, and Hankow's Bishop Logan Herbert Roots, able and deeply beloved churchman. Potent speakers have also been President Herman Chen-en Liu of Shanghai University, whose grandfather became a Christian: well-poised Miss Wu, whom all China knows as president of a handsome women's college at Nanking; and Dr. Charles Roger ("Charlie'') Watson, Cairo-born president...
...staid old Church of England buzzed over the exciting possibility of its first Episcopal trial in 46 years.* Under fire from the Church's Anglo-Catholic wing was Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David, Lord Bishop of Liverpool, a lean, wavy-haired divine whose fame as a low-churchman is exceeded in England only by that of lean little Dr. Ernest William Barnes, Lord Bishop of Birmingham. Before he became Bishop Dr. David was for twelve years headmaster of Rugby School. Bishop David has not only startled Anglicans by leading his congregation in vigorous hymn-singing and joining with other...
...assistant) to the Presiding Bishop of the church, to succeed Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota who died last August. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had chosen his man and the House of Bishops approved: Bishop Philip ("Phil") Cook of Delaware. A tall, grey-haired, hearty, eloquent churchman, Bishop Cook has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a breezy rector in San Antonio, Tex. and Baltimore. Missouri-born (July 4, 1875), he now lives at "Bishopstead" in Wilmington. His specialty has been home missions. When he went to the War he told...
...Cambridge correspondent, in a recent letter from that seat of English glory, passes on the current gossip about the gloomy Dean Inge. At one time, when the famous churchman was writing for a London paper, a friend asked him: "Shall I address you as a pillar of the Church of England, or as two columns of the Evening Standard?" This story, we are told, is the very life and breath of the swank wine parties of the Colleges at the moment...
...silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself with a pinch while another recited to him an original couplet on the king's new mistress. They were a statesman, a wit, a playwright, a poet, a churchman, gorgeous figures...