Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England. More than 500 clergymen of the Church of England, including many canons, have pledged their support to the Labor Party. For a long time the Church has felt keenly the reproach that the working classes were being alienated from it because they found no friends among the clergy. A congratulatory address was sent to Ramsey Macdonald and the Labor M. P.'s which said : " We shall support actively in whatever ways are open to us the effort you will assuredly make for the spiritual and economic emancipation of the people...
Barnum's patriotism, loud and strong, served him as a financial asset. His personal piety befriended church and circus. Clergymen not only used free tickets, which Barnum sent them for " The Greatest Moral Show on Earth," but they brought Barnum's name into the pulpit...
...mass meeting was held in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, on Monday, at which the speakers were General John F. O'Ryan (Catholic) and Dr. Harry E. Fosdick (Baptist). Before the meeting 600 clergymen met in a nearby church. Two thousand similar meetings were held in various parts of the country...
Back in 1843, two Georgia clergymen married wives who owned slaves. They were promptly accused by the Methodist Conference of New York State of contravening the doctrines of their church, and were found guilty by the Baltimore Conference that same year. Thereupon all the Conferences of the Methodist Churches in the southern states seceded and formed " The Methodist Episcopal Church, South," which has endured until now. They held that slavery was a civil and not a religious issue. During the Civil War, Lincoln said of the Methodist Church in the North that it " sent more soldiers into the field, more...
...first original phase of this highly original plan," said President Eliot, "is a complete reorganization of the board of trustees. Whereas Antioch College formerly had trustees who were mostly clergymen of two ecclesiastical sects, the new board is made up of successful business men and manufacturers known also to have been interested in education for many years." The second distinctive element, the organization of a new kind of faculty was next discussed by the speaker. Instructors are sought who will instill in pupils interest in activity and in the problems they have to face, not by driving at them...