Word: ecclesiasticism
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No Clergy. In his will, Stephen Girard declared that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever" be allowed within the college wall. His next of kin, hoping to break the will on the basis of the anticlerical clause, once hired Daniel Webster to argue the case. Webster lost...
Out of an airplane in Moscow last Sunday stepped a benign ecclesiastic in a purple cassock and cap. He was Britain's No. 2 primate, Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. He came to visit Patriarch Sergius, Metropolitan of All Russia, a fortnight after Joseph Stalin had given...
The 87 men who signed this statement are as notable as the statement itself. They include President Luther A. Weigle of the Federal Council of Churches, Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Episcopal Church, Moderator Stuart Nye Hutchison and Stated Clerk William Barrow Pugh of the Presbyterian Church...
According to a legend recounted by the lyth-Century poet and ecclesiastic. John Donne, the cock that crew thrice at Peter's denial of Christ -
Saint Nicholas & Black Peter. Slow in some respects, the Dutch had outspeeded other Europeans in the matter of Santa Claus last week, as they do every year. To strict Calvinistic subjects of devout Queen Wilhelmina it would smack of blasphemy to observe Dec. 25 otherwise than with solemn thanks in...