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...this was not a Chapter (formal meeting) of the Order of the Garter, George V and Edward of Wales wore ordinary morning dress instead of gorgeous Garter robes, but the clergy of the Order came robed and resplendent, each churchman displaying the famed motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense (Evil be to him who evil thinks...
...this fundamental Democratic doctrine" [States Rights]. Rev. James K. Shields, Superintendent of the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, warned his fellow Drys that traditional, militant Wets were not so much a danger to their credo as "the Morrow type . . . much more to be feared: the quiet, dignified, scholarly churchman of evangelical persuasion, who never rants but nevertheless stands for the action that would be fatal to the 18th Amendment...
...Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the National Conference on Social Work of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, the Commissions on Social Welfare of the Universalist General Convention. Bishop Francis John McConnell (Methodist), president of the Federal Council, was a potent churchman attending. Said he: "This age is not doing much with the Ten Commandments, but it is discovering a good deal for itself...
...Churchman, liberal Episcopalian weekly, wrote its Yankton, S. Dak., correspondent last week to eulogize the late, romanticized Deadwood Dick, currently revived for the U. S. masses by William Randolph Hearst's New York American (TIME, May 19, June...
...regard enforcement of any law enacted by the legislature of a sovereign state as "persecution." Sir Esmond Ovey, trained in the British Foreign Office tradition of using words exactly and not loosely (of "saying what one means and meaning what one says"), concludes with the regret of a Churchman forced to give the Devil his due: "There is no religious persecution in Russia in the strict sense of the term 'persecution,' and no case has been discovered of a priest or anyone else being punished for the practice of religion...