Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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, should church unity be effected, to accept a Roman Catholic reconsecration since the Roman Church did not recognize them as properly ordained priests. Lord Halifax, long President of the English Church Union, hoped to gain some tiny compromise, some small unbending from the Roman Church. His hopes were...
Unlike the New York clergymen who are forever getting movements under way to uplift the drama (they did it again last week), the Princeton undergraduates are not impelled by motives of pure altruism. In the latest film the Andy Foger of the Princeton campus, on the morning of the track meet wit. Yale, gave a few short ones of cocains to the university-half-miler. And all was for the hand of a Vassar maid...
...Straton has been in the limelight of publicity for the past few years because of his strict and outspoken fundamentalist beliefs, and has lately taken up the cult of divine healing, arousing considerable antagonism from other clergymen on this score...
...confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems', 'the Protestant confessional'. The name makes little difference. What does matter is the renewed awareness in the churches that they are in danger of surrendering...
...cathedral Mount Saint Albans National Cathedral School for Boys, National Cathedral School for Girls, a wing of the library, (containing 20,000 books), the college of preachers (for which last week's contributions will build a permanent home). Contemplated are a hall of assembly, a hostel, to accommodate visiting clergymen and scholars, an administration building, a chapter house, and a clergy village for retired rectors...