Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over two years ago the Eliot House Chapel was organized in a basement room in the House in order to provide morning and evening prayers and devotional services. Although the chapel is used by Catholics, Protestants, and Episcopalians, the group which started it and continues to retain the most interest in it is Episcopal. In the fall of 1952 a similar group was established in a basement room of Matthews Hall for freshmen, also by predominantly Episcopalian interests...
...Masonic activities; in 1949 he offered a prayer at Truman's inauguration, the second rabbi in history to participate in a presidential inaugural.- Others at the Jefferson Hotel's banquet table were the Very Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S.J., president of Roman Catholic St. Louis University, and Episcopalian Ethan A. H. Shepley, chancellor of Washington University. As the guest speaker, Baptist Truman had something useful to tell them all about that much-abused term, brotherhood. Excerpts from his speech...
...questionnaire (out of 25,000 polled) reported that they had received a total of 51,361 former Roman Catholics into their churches within the past ten years. Projecting his sample, Poling got a nationwide estimate of 4,144,366 Catholic-to-Protestant converts in a decade. Writes Episcopalian Will Oursler:* "Even when allowances are made for error, the total national figure could hardly be less than two or three million and in all probability runs closer to five million...
...since 1909, when revered Charles William Eliot delivered a discourse there on "The Religion of the Future." Though a small band of alumni had been valiantly trying to raise $5,000,000 to make the school an "interdenominational" center of religious studies, they had found it hard going. Now Episcopalian Pusey quoted Unitarian Dr. Eliot on the New Religion (". . . public baths, playgrounds, wider and cleaner streets, better dwellings . . ."), and bluntly said: "This faith will no longer do ... It is leadership in religious knowledge, and more, in religious experience ... of which we now have a most gaping need...
...Bristol Jr., a 3O-year-old Manhattan businessman, is a good example of a layman who works hard for Christianity without stumbling into either pitfall. He is a devout Episcopalian. As a licensed lay reader, a synod delegate and field worker for his church's New York diocese, he tries his best to gain more followers for what he calls "the sleeping giant" of U.S. religious bodies. As vice president of the Laymen's Movement for a Christian World, he tries to make Christian principles felt in various segments of public life, e.g., by helping...