Word: communion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peter Ainslie, Disciple of Christ) planned a conference in Manhattan for last week. Dr. Karl Reiland, Liberal Episcopal preacher, a member of the league, invited the conference to meet at his church, St. George's. A feature of the three-day meeting was to be a communion service conducted by the Presbyterian Liberal Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. When newspapers announced the service, those who knew Bishop William Thomas Manning's legalistic views wondered whether he would allow such a service to be held in one of his Episcopal churches.* Said...
...Horne to economic inefficiency. Said he: "Waste in church administration and unproductive expenditure constitutes a collective sin of the churches. The losses due to inefficiency are shown by the surplus of Protestant church edifices, with three times as many sittings as there are adherents. Under Roman Catholic unity that communion has an approximate proportion of two and a half communicants for every sitting...
...graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, and R. H. Hill 1T.S. respectively. On Saturday morning a speech by Dr. Gilkey will be followed by various forums. Saturday afternoon will be devoted to winter sports; and in the evening Dr. Gilkey will speak again. Morning watch service and an afternoon Communion service will conclude the scheduled events...
...well might Democrats quake. Though three other sects have been indirectly affected by political pleas of one sort or another, the Walker pronouncement is the first direct appeal from the highest official of a denomination to all members of his communion. It is therefore signifcant as the possible beginning of a formal Dry crusade led by unanimous Elder Statesmen of U. S. Protestantism. Not carelessly to be dismissed are the following spurts, which though lacking the universal imprimatur of the highest church officials, may be taken as indicative of how a Protestant army is being mustered...
...deprive . . . him . . . and all his accomplices and abettors of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord, ... we separate him from the society of all Christians, ... we declare him excommunicated and anathematized, ... we deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment. . . . Fiat, fiat, fiat...