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Senate House Methodist 18 84 Roman Catholic 11 75 Baptist 14 55 Presbyterian 13 52 Episcopal 12 45 Congregationalist 8 19 Lutheran 4 15 Disciples of Christ 2 14 Jewish 2 8 Mormon 3 4 Evangelical and Reformed 2 4 Unitarian 2 3 Quaker 2 2 Church of Christ 4 Universalist 2 Christian Scientist 2 Apostolic Christian 1 Evangelical Free Church 1 Hindu...
...MacArthur constitution, which divorced Japanese church and state, most of Kyoto's temples began charging admission fees in order to support themselves. The result was a bonanza of tax-free riches. This delighted the Buddhist and Shinto priests but filled Kyoto's Mayor Gizo Takayama, a Congregationalist, with ill-concealed envy. To Mayor Takayama, whose father founded the first Y.M.C.A. in the city, the sightseers' gold was an asset that should be shared by the temples with the city as a whole. To help pay off his city's deficit...
...bishop in 1952 was considered a rapid one; at 51 he is reputed to be one of the church's best public speakers, is known as a scholarly High-churchman with several books on theology to his credit. A Cambridge man, and son of a Cambridge don (a Congregationalist preacher whom he eventually confirmed in the Church of England), Ramsey has long been an outspoken opponent of divorce, was once looked upon by liberals as a threat to the ecumenical movement. But at last year's Convocation of York, he proved to be in favor of interchurch cooperation...
...mere fact of the heretics' existence is taken by Congregationalist Kilde as a harbinger of better times to come. "Whatever the weather otherwise, it is springtime in Midwestern Lutheranism. The ice is beginning to break, the long, cold winter of dark dogmatism ... is beginning to wane...
...minister to the mentally ill in the U.S. During 3½ years as an Anglican parish minister in Canada. Pastor Bruder felt that he was failing some members of his flock through lack of understanding. Then he heard of the Council for Clinical Training, founded in 1925 by a Congregationalist minister named Anton T. Boisen, who had once been a mental patient himself. Anglican Bruder took one of the council's twelve-week courses, found the work with patients so absorbing that he went on to further study in hospitals and prisons...