Word: ecclesiasticism
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This church belongs to that part of the Protestant Episcopal Church known as the "Anglo-Catholic wing." Its present rector is Dr. Randolph Ray, a genial ecclesiastic who was once a journalist.
"I have reached the topmost rung of the ladder for an ecclesiastic-the highest honor for a churchman-while still in the prime of life. I have no other ambition."
A bearded, turbaned Moslem ecclesiastic arose with dignity and intense conviction. "When that moment comes," he cried, "the men will become women!"
The parallel with Stephen Girard is curiously close, and it is significant that Mr. Hershey went to Philadelphia and studied the college there before he opened his own school in 1909. Girard's will in 1831 specified that " poor, male, white orphan children" only should be admitted. Preference was to...
And now Don Lorenzo has been legally pronounced insane, and his belongings placed in the custody of his brother, who, like himself, is an ecclesiastic.