Word: episcopalian
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...College of William and Mary was Episcopalian. Her Chancellor was the Bishop of London or his Deputy (until the Revolution!). Theology, with its attendant Oriental languages, was stressed less than at Harvard...
...back the stolen papers." Walter Connolly made a great success as the Bishop in the Broadway version of Frederic Jackson's play last winter, but it is hard to believe that anyone could be as good as Edmund Gwenn is in this adaptation. He is even convincing when his Episcopalian relish for a nice little crime gets the young people into trouble and he has to turn dramatic to save them. Lucile Watson is the Bishop's sister, longtime president of the Primrose League, who knows how to tie up crooks because she has had so much experience tying...
Methodists. Congregationalists, Episcopalians have taken their turns at being head chaplain of the U. S. Navy, but not until this week did a Roman Catholic get the job. Appointed to succeed Captain Sydney K. Evans, Episcopalian, was Captain Edward Aloysius Duff, 50, of Philadelphia. Jovial, round-faced Father Duff, 20 years a chaplain on battleships and in Xavy yards, will sit at a desk in Washington, direct the spiritual welfare of 85,000 officers & men. Says he: "By actual count and statistics, a larger proportion of Navy men and officers attend church on ship and on shore than...
...wish," mused Rev. William MacDougall Hay of Long Hill, Conn.'s Grace Church, writing in the Episcopalian Living Church last week, "some old and wise priest would write a little book of Advice to the Just-Ordained...
...scattered through every sizable country in the world except China. The U. S. shelters 7,000 Swedenborgians with 100 churches. Because outsiders were inclined to confuse it with Judaism, members now refer to their organization simply as the New Church. The New Church patterns its services on the Episcopalian, its administrative set-up on the Congregational. In 1890 some members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which...