Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the American Bible Society estimated that last year 32,000,000 Bibles (mostly black) were sold. Churchmen wondered whether Bishop Garbett's advice might not well make for even greater sales...
...Paul's Society was an Episcopal group which attempted to bring together the Churchmen of the University. It was founded in 1862. Most of its functions having already been transferred to the Brooks House and other of its activities interesting an ever decreasing number of students, the members of the Society have felt it desirable to dissolve their organization and lodge its few remaining duties with the Brooks House Association...
...When the Anglo-Catholic Congress met in Manhattan last fall he went openly to preside over it. That congress was so "high" that it looked to some quite Romish?what with masses, and talk of the rosary, and of prayer for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Broad-churchmen were affronted...
...this is true, how is it that a university first fashioned by high churchmen should admit this troublesome child within its august portals...
...Phillips is a liberal evangelical, is a compromise president, for he is pleasing to the liberal (quasi-Roman) high church & to the evangelical (Methodistic) low church. When it came time to take up the proposed exclusion of the 39 articles of prayer, a bad-taste controversy loomed. High churchmen did not want the articles; low churchmen wanted them, because their inclusion prevented even the kinship of resemblance to the Church of Rome. A controversy was averted by uncompromising retention of the articles, with the active approval of the House of Deputies & the House of Bishops, the passive acquiescence...