Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus were venerated the whiskers of St. Charles, who to the lay world is known as Charles Stuart, King of England, whose head, for various reasons, was cut off in 1649. To high churchmen Charles I was a martyr of religion...
...monks of the Holy Cross are the highest churchmen among Episcopalians. They are believed to have the support of many bishops. It is the modernist contention that these monks are far greater heretics than any reputable modernist. "Where does the Bible, or the Prayer Book, of any Creed say anything about St. Charles' whiskers," ask the modernists? "By what authority 'do bishops tolerate the whiskers' veneration? Their...
Opponents. Prominent objectors to birth control are less vocal than in the past, but the late Theodore Roosevelt's protest against "race suicide" is well known. Many churchmen are outspoken against the movement, as, for instance, Archbishops Mundelein of Chicago and Hayes of New York, Dr. John Roach Straton and other Catholic and Fundamentalist leaders. Justice John Ford of New York, John S. Sumner of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield of New York and Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen of Chicago are other leading opponents...
...present controversy, Dr. Rousmaniere is in perfect agreement with the Modern Churchmen's Union, the organ of the liberal Episcopal group. "We can no longer hold a conception of God which reigned at the time the creeds were formulated," he said. "We have advanced to what we call a deeper conception." The fundamentalist insists on belief in facts about God; the liberal holds that belief in the idea of God is all important...
...curate in Durham and Oxford until 1904 and then became a professor at the University of Leyden in Holland. In 1914 he came to the University as professor of early Christian Literature, and was named as Winn professor of ecclesiastical history in 1919. He is vice-president of the Churchmen's Union of England...