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...protest, which was made by Yale, is based on a rule which provides that a man who takes part in an open track meet before entering college shall not represent that college in the intercollegiate meet until a year after entrance. Schick took part in the Springfield Diocesan Games at Holyoke in the spring of 1900, and it is claimed by Yale that these were open games. The Diocesan Union, however, has for several years given an annual meet, open only to its own members. These meets have always been considered closed by the New England A.A.U., but the sanction...
...called to the highest positions--to apostleship, to prophecy, to teaching--and to others were given the smaller offices in the organism. But all the authority which came to pertain to church officers was but the authority of missionaries and evangelists over their people, and in no sense the diocesan authority of regularly appointed bishops. Authority was given for and was conditional upon superior spirituality alone, and nowhere is there evidence of a clerical hierarchy understood as established by the will of Christ...
...equality. There was no bishop above the elders, and the only higher officers were the apostles. In later times, one of the elders was given the presidency and was often called bishop. We find no trace, however, of the selection of the bishop by the apostles, or even of diocesan episcopacy. The bishops were not priests, but officers of the church, charged with preserving order and repressing heresy. The imposition of hands, upon which so much stress is often laid, was a Jewish custom used in inaugurating both civil and religious officers. The universal verdict of scholars is that episcopacy...
...Brooks will not conduct chapel this morning as he is attending the Diocesan Convention. This will however be his last absence...
Poems marked "Derry Cathedral Prize Poem," are to be lodged with the Secretary, Diocesan Synod, Office, Londonderry, on or before February...