Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the President of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America start a drive for an Orthodox Jewish College in New York. Such sectionalism, such isolation from the commonwealth is to be commended neither among the Jews, nor among the Catholics in their Catholic colleges, nor in Episcopalian or any other denominational Institutions. For such institutions run, flatly counter to the ideal of American citizenship, of giving all the population America's heritage of traditions and America's purposes...
...soon as she was well, Bertha took service with the Musliners?and, after solving a critical domestic difficulty for them, moved on again?this time to the Wallensteins, whom she found in the throes of another kind of trouble. Old Mrs. Wallenstein, kosher of the kosher, hated her wasteful, Episcopalian daughter-in-law and was cordially hated back, and the life of Wallenstein, fils, was ground to pieces between the two women. Bertha did her best for that family, too, but tragedy overtook them?and she moved once more. Front Street again?saving a gutter-child from horror?scrubwoman...
...retiring Moderator, William E. Barton of Oak Park, Ill., opened the subject of Church union. He began by rejecting overtures from the Episcopalians. Episcopalian bishops will not admit the validity of Congregational consecration or ordination of ministers, but they offer to reordain them if a merger can thereby be effected. Said Dr. Barton: "I would consider it equally a compliment if it were suggested to me that my children would appear to him [i.e., an Episcopalian bishop] more nearly legitimate if I would consent at this time to a supplemental marriage at the hands of a justice of the peace...
...must not hamper the selection. For any man, if he be unscrupulous enough, can change his affiliations in order to satisfy the requirements, and only men of the highest calibre are barred by arbitrary rules. Chicago's president should not necessarily be a Baptist, nor Columbia's necessarily an Episcopalian. Only in small institutions such as Goucher College, does the President of the Board of Trustees resign because the President of the College refuses to dismiss a professor for unorthodox teachings. The public good, and not private beliefs or preferences, should govern the policy of every great university...
...Wednesday nights during Lent. There will be no leader of the first meeting, which will be held next Wednesday. It was also decided to hold a service every Thursday night at the same hour. The society has extended an invitation to the services and discussion groups to all Episcopalian students in the University...