Word: deaconness
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Every New England deacon ought to see Derby day to learn what sort of world this is he lives in. Man is a sporting as well as a praying animal...
...gently held these assorted characters together was the 64-year-old father, Bernard, unassuming hero of Author Hutchinson's new novel. Forty years as doctor, farmer and deacon in Chinese villages had made Bernard a blend of practical man and religious philosopher. He believed that the Western world could be saved only by accomplishing the spiritual salvation of the East, and after a day of forking dung and tending the cattle he would sit down at the noisy living-room table and calmly work on his translation into Chinese of The Pilgrim's Progress. Or he might hitch...
...Looking-Glass, Author Lennon, a minor U.S. poet and a student of anthropology, tries to answer her own question. To the tantalizing riddle of literary genius she has no answer, but she has brought together a fascinating collection of facts that show clearly the fantastically divided nature of the deacon who was equally a rigid, exemplary don and perhaps the most brilliant eccentric...
...Anglican (or Episcopalian) deaconess is not a female deacon. She may not read Morning or Evening Prayer, or preach, which a deacon can do. Like a lay sister, she wears a habit, assists the parish priest in educational and social-service work...
Night Out. In The Bronx, a beer-drinking crow named Deacon, whose small vocabulary includes "bow-wow," flew out of the zoo, was discovered in a fight with a cat two blocks away, was returned to the zoo minus some feathers and smelling of beer from an unknown donor...