Word: deaconness
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...about Osborne's way with juries. She had been approached by the courthouse janitor, a Negro named Matt Jones, who asked her to cast her ballot for Al Osborne's client in a damage suit. Fixer Jones, a thin, melancholy man with the air of a church deacon, was hauled into court for contempt, acknowledged that Osborne had asked him to see if he could get any Negroes on the jury to "help out"on the case...
...career as a research and training chief of the famed atomic city in Tennessee. His position in the church, he feels, will simply be an extension of the job he is already doing as vestryman of Oak Ridge's brand-new St. Stephen's Church. As a deacon, he will be able to assist his rector, the Rev. Robert F. McGregor, in a variety of ways-conducting services during his absence, or lending a hand at the new mission in nearby Norris, Tenn...
Though undated, I presume it to be about the Revolutionary era. For the record, said Asa Walker was a respected deacon of the Unitarian Church of Ashby, Mass, whose forebears were the strictest of Puritans. Shades of Kefauver...
...began with a letter to the Church Times, signed by four clergymen and four laymen, among them such prominent Anglican names as Deacon Hugh Ross Williamson, Church Architect J. Ninian Comper and Poet John Betjeman. The "proposed United Christian Rally," they wrote, "has filled us with misgiving . . . We . . . think that the participation of the Church of England may give the . . . impression that the Roman Catholics are the only religious body which defends the full Catholic faith. Whatever may be the intention of the organizers, the effect can hardly fail to be an emphasis on the 'churches' with...
Some 650 did join them, filling the Church of the Annunciation to capacity. "It's only just beginning," said Deacon Ross Williamson after the service, "but we have hundreds of telegrams from all over the country, wishing us well. Something must be done. One gets so tired of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the way he carries...