Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...churchmen who listened to the buzz last September when Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Brooklyn Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the same sort gave churchmen something more to buzz about. Pastor Adelbert J. Helm of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church announced his resignation. Reason: his church council's refusal of membership to a Negro man, a Negro woman...
...Theodore Irving Reese. But more than broad, altogether too latitudinarian for most Episcopal tastes, is Bishop Paul Jones, "the bishop without a diocese," called last fortnight to Southern Ohio to carry on during Bishop Reese's illness (TIME, Nov.11). A pacifist, Bishop Jones is looked on by broad churchmen as Liberals eye a Red. Last week broad and high churchmen heaved sighs of relief when the diocesan convention of Southern Ohio elected Howard Chandler Robbins, onetime Dean of Manhattan's famed Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as Bishop-Coadjutor...
...years both churches had labored toward the reunion. In Edinburgh last week, on the Lawnmarket, by the Cathedral, a long column of Auld Kirk divines joined a column of free churchmen. After handshaking and congratulations the lines, reformed, all marched as one column into the Cathedral. "Behold How Good a Thing It Is" lustily sang the sons of devout Scots as the column passed...
...congregation, among whom were a few Negroes, a notice he had printed in the church bulletin: "The Episcopal Church provides churches for Negroes. Several of these churches are within easy reach of this locality. They are in the need of the loyal support of all true Negro churchmen. Therefore, the rector of this parish discourages the attendance or membership in this church of members of that race...
...Rare are churchmen with financial ability, yet a Rochester, N. Y. congregation a few years ago insured Dr. Clinton Wunder for $100,000 and watched with amazement the ease with which he financed their $3,000,000 Baptist Temple Building. Last week, after hearing Dr. Wunder read an unexpected note of resignation, the congregation was even more aware of his smartness...