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Third was Dr. Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan. Smooth-faced, brown-eyed, athletic, this churchman, too, seemed to prefer the diocese in which he found himself, and declined...
Last week, in The Churchman (Episcopal liberal weekly) the society denied, as it has before, any official affiliation with the Church. The Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., is, however, president ex officio, and the society claims to represent more than 1,500 of the Episcopal clergy. The society has always denied having an official character, notably in 1917 when it championed the Prohibition movement. Last week, however, as for some time past, the Society attacked Prohibition...
...Lord Hugh" is a name with which to conjure down the very angels of Morality. For 30 years this sombre yet brilliant High Churchman has been what Britons call a "pillar of reform." During the War he showed the fine, tempered metal of the Cecils by learning to fly and how to shoot down the enemy. Not for nothing was his great ancestor, the First Earl of Salisbury (circa 1565-1612), the strongest and wisest counselor of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Last week with every blue drop of his Cecil blood a-boiling, Lord Hugh rose to confront and confound...
...expected. The present bishop is the Right Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, graduate of Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He is 59 and long married. His fondness for golf and fishing proclaim him a philosophic gentleman. But an irruption from him last fortnight revealed the length to which a modern churchman, however anciently hallowed his setting, may let himself go when oppressed by the wickedness of the times. Bishop Furse was moved to speak out about divorce and about persons unbaptized. These matters had been rankling until the Bishop sounded shrill and frenzied. Said he: "I have given instructions...
When the Diocese of New York was seeking a successor to Bishop Charles S. Burch eight years ago. Rev. William Thomas Manning was but a minority candidate. There were two objections to the then rector of Trinity: 1) he was a "High" Churchman, while his predecessor Bishop Greer had been of the "Broad" persuasion; 2) he was a native of England, an Anglophile...