Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church Anglicans call high churchmen "spikes" (for their sharp, uncompromising churchmanship). Under the "merry monks"-as the low-church Episcopal Chronicle called them-St. Mary's became one of the great spike churches of the U. S. It used quantities of incense and holy water, burned vigil lamps in its shrine of Our Lady, reserved the Blessed Sacrament (i.e., kept it on the altar for adoration), bought fancy vestments by the trunkful. It celebrated such rare feasts as the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin. The church was perhaps the only one in the U. S. which maintained...
Most Southern churchmen are theological, economic and political hard-shells. Eleven years ago one of the oldest and richest churches in Chattanooga, Tenn., Third Presbyterian, called a Scottish-born-and-burred clergyman who was anything but shellbacked-Rev. Thomas B. Cowan. In 1934 Pastor Cowan held a meeting of a new, radical organization, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, later became its president. Thereupon 22 Chattanoogans seceded from Third Church. More left when Mr. Cowan helped organize labor unions, worked among sharecroppers, invited a Negro to a church dinner. Of late the chief listeners to Pastor Cowan's Sunday sermons...
...Fellowship of Southern Churchmen made no reply. Since its founding it has been on record against "a growing fascist spirit within the Southern States, evidenced in floggings, teachers' oaths . . . concentration camps, vigilante service of deputized landowners and hoodlums in certain sections. . . ." The Fellowship is for: "The right of freedom of the pulpit which is historically identified with the prophetic character of the Judaic and Christian religions...
...churchmen perennially watch for signs of a U. S. religious revival, are perennially pleased to think they see such signs. An unkind blow were two surveys of U. S. opinion released this week. Not conclusive (because neither provided any conclusive comparison with the past), they were nevertheless far from encouraging...
...frostily replied that all the dates were taken. Sympathetic protests began to pour in from all sides: last week they reached peak proportions. Among the most impressive: that of the American Union of Democracy, in which Walter Damrosch, Deems Taylor and a Who's Who of prominent musicians. churchmen and journalists hoped "that this amazing action reflects the opinion of some irresponsible official...