Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month Catholic Digest printed an article by Episcopalian John Erskine in which he termed Protestant missions south of the Rio Grande "the work of pure destruction," urged their abandonment. Catholic Digest in turn suggested that such missionary activity "violates our Good Neighbor policy" and that the U.S. "should cease to make divisions in South America." Last week the Christian Century, leading Protestant weekly, returned the salvo: "There are enough religiously indifferent people in South America to give Protestant missionaries an ample field for a century. What if they do proselyte? So does the Roman Catholic Church...
...Episcopal Church is the richest per capita in the U.S.-but the wealth is all east of the Alleghenies. West of Nebraska (and excluding the Pacific Coast), the Episcopalian U.S. is mostly a missionary area. Episcopalians, who may know these facts but are not altogether aware of them, had their ears seized and shouted in this week, when the Rev. J. Lindsay Patton of Berkeley, Calif, not only declined his election as Bishop of San Joaquin but said the bishopric ought to be abolished...
...Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning, who started the attack by denouncing Russell's works, did not speak for his church. (So says Episcopalian Cleric Guy Emery Shipler, editor of The Churchman...
...Dealer Maury Maverick, San Antonio's Episcopalian mayor, hailed the event as "the greatest single fortunate occurrence for San Antonio in a very, very long time." And a letter of good wishes came from another Episcopalian who is also a personal friend-Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Episcopalian Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week issued an executive order authorizing Selective Service Director Clarence Addison Dykstra (Dutch Reformed) to initiate a program of non-military work of "national importance" for conscientious objectors. But the most practical of all pacifist sects had beat him to the plowshare. Four days previously the American Friends Service Committee had already opened its second work camp for C. O.s in Patapsco State Forest near Baltimore. Soon the Quakers, the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren will have ten camps set up for the 6,700 C. O.s so far turned...