Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existed in the Sicily in the 'gos. One cannot wonder at the half dozen protagonists that go mad in the course of 764 pages. Not even the main characters have all been mentioned here, to say nothing of the intricate assortment of servants, lovers, cousins, and the churchmen and politicians that run riot through both volumes. With all its exhausting intricacies, this panoramic novel abounds in rich knowledge of Italian nature, and a kindly disparagement of human futilities...
Indeed, to its spiritual leaders. Sodom and Gomorrah appear as naught beside Chicago, which is anathematized as the home of all that is corrupt, where vice abounds unchecked by conniving officialdom and the people are at the mercies of bombs and poisonous liquors. So the churchmen gather to pray that the growing pains of the turbulent city may be abated and that the ballot box may no longer yield a forced crop of magistrates. But yesterday's declaration of faith seems hardly the means by which to procure the metamorphosis at a time when gangsters scoff at the impotence...
...frail, delicate, serious, Lord Halifax could read in the encyclical the defeat of a lifetime's labor. It had been his idea, as it was the idea of many English high-churchmen and laymen, that the Church of England, which does not recognize itself as protestant in the sense for example of Lutheran, Methodist, or Presbyterian Churches, might be ready to amalgamate itself with the Roman Church. Certainly, for the last century, some members of the Anglican Church have tended more and more to recognize certain Roman Catholic tenets. At the Lambeth Conference, in 1920, English clergymen stated their willingness...
...Hague (1911). He declined the bishoprics of Washington, D. C., and New Jersey, to preserve for his world ministry the freedom of action he enjoys at Buffalo, N. Y. When his world ministry reached its peak this month, he was not content merely to preside over the hundreds of churchmen he had brought together, but went with them into their councils; explained, directed, adjusted and dictated daily despatches on their progress to the New York Herald Tribune...
...Churchmen therefore were justly irate to discover that their newspapers had copied the list from "Church Business," an eight-page advertising leaflet published by the Duplex Co. of Richmond, Va. This concern makes envelopes to contain church-money offerings...