Word: clergyman
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...John Barnard Associates and the Cygnet Press are avowedly Harvard concerns. The first professes to emulate an eighteenth-century clergyman who "was fond of books and did what he could for Harvard", while the second is managed by two members of the Signet Society who aim to demonstrate that they have learned something from the finely printed books which have been given to the College Library...
...militant clergyman. He asked State authorities to prevent his Yale classmates from serving drinks at reunion. He defied his bishop and when he was tried by an ecclesiastical court on 127 different charges pleaded his own case and was found guilty on three counts. Last week he was asked not to preach to a congregation in Hull, England, because he was "not in a fit state...
...Corinthian Theatre. In Philadelphia: he denounced local politicians, Bishop Coadjutor Alexander Mackay-Smith, Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander; defended Professor Scott Nearing who was ousted by the University of Pennsylvania for "radicalism." He was tried (1914) before the Chancellor of the Diocese on 14 counts of conduct unbecoming a clergyman and in violation of his ordination vows. The trial, lasting a year, ended in Preacher Richmond's suspension from the Church (1915) for a year. He was again brought to trial in 1916 on 126 charges.* Convicted on three counts, he was again suspended for two years. He resigned from...
Born in Philadelphia nearly 53 years ago, Bishop-elect Robbins was a Presbyterian until his late 20's. Then he went to Princeton Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), found its Calvinism too narrow, looked for broader horizons. In 1904 he was ordained an Episcopal clergyman. He had parishes at Morristown and Englewood, N. J., went to the Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan in 1911. Six years later he was elected Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...displayed in schoolrooms because of ''dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children." Bishop Jones further said that no man could worship at two altars, nationalist and Christian. Cried the Transcript to all patriots: "We are still old-fashioned enough to believe that the clergyman who advocates abandonment of the American flag and what it stands for has no place in American society, whatever his pretensions as a leader in his church. Neither do we believe that he represents his church, or that such doctrine . . . will not be repudiated...