Word: deaconness
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...mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon's bull; the Carolina mother's advice to her departing son: "Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anybody for slander or assault & battery. Always settle them cases yourself...
...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...
...Presiding Bishop, no disheartening job-hunting was necessary. Next month he becomes curate of Christ and St. Luke's Church in Norfolk (1,300 communicants). By the powers bestowed upon him last week by his Father in God & in flesh, Deacon Perry may assist in ministering Holy Communion, reading Scriptures, instructing youth, baptizing infants, may even preach with the permission of his bishop...