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...Take thou authority to execute the office of deacon," said Rt. Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to a tall, blond young man in the Cathedral of St. John in Providence, R. I. one day last week. The young man's mother and two beaming aunts sat in nearby pews. To assist the red-robed Episcopal primate in the job at hand were the young man's onetime headmaster as preacher, his younger brother as crucifer, two of his cousins as crosier-bearer and litanist. His hands trembling with emotion, Bishop Perry...
Deacon James De Wolf Perry Jr., 27, is the third of his name in direct line to enter the Episcopal Church. Bishop James De Wolf Perry Sr. was born 64 years ago in Germantown, Pa., where his father was a longtime rector. Young Deacon Perry grew up in Providence, in the diocese of which his father has been the urbane, affluent shepherd since 1911. Headmaster Frederick Herbert Sill of Kent School, which graduated young James Perry in 1928, sermonized in the Providence Cathedral last week: "You have had the heart of a priest from your boyhood. You were dedicated...
...Harvardman (1932) like his father (1892) and his brother John (1936), James De W01f Perry Jr. was an undistinguished student, an undistinguished athlete rowing on class crews. Last month he was graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary. Last week Deacon Perry boned up for the examinations for the priesthood which he will take this week. Although a year must elapse between ordinations to the diaconate and the priesthood, seminaries examine at once for the priesthood on the practical assumption that candidates might forget their theology...
Died, Jonkheer Dr. C. J. M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck, 62, president of the Tweede Kamer, lower house of The Netherlands Parliament, thrice Premier; at Vorden, in the Province of Gelderland. Reproached in 1919 for affording ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II & son refuge in the country, he blurted: "To put it bluntly, these gentlemen fell like a brick on our heads. How could we act otherwise than we have done...
Such were the facts about a new synthetic fibre, recited last week in Kansas City, by Dr. Ernest Baden Benger of du Pont de Nemours & Co. Nearly 2,000 chemists, some of them from England, Switzerland and Holland, were assembled there for the 91st convention of the American Chemical Society...