Word: episcopalian
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...Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law, yesterday confirmed the view he laid before the Episcopalian Club of Massachusetts last Wednesday evening: that "divorce cannot be stopped, but we can insure happy marriage through education...
Professor Beale went on to say that "divorce is a social disease that one cannot prevent." With this in mind, he proposed a new canon on marriage and divorce, allowing, for the first time, remarriage under the Episcopalian church...
...liberal than the former canon on marriage, and endeavor to "make for happy marriages by teaching the young the meaning of married life." For those who did not have this opportunity, Professor Beale would require a signed certificate that each party had discussed the meaning of marriage with an Episcopalian clergyman before the final ceremony. In these ways he is endeavoring to minimize the possibility of divorce...
...were commonly regarded as a feat of window-dressing by Tammany Hall. Chief qualifications of Mr. Grain for his job were that he had a reputation for austerity on the bench, was a Tammany sachem, had been a jobholder for 33 of his 70 years and was a prominent Episcopalian. It is Tammany precedent to nominate a Protestant district attorney lest the ticket be too topheavy with Roman Catholics...
...question has already been faced and solved in another part of the British Isles. In 1868 Gladstone carried his famous resolutions which disestablished and disendowed the Episcopal Church in Ireland, on the ground that the large Catholic population and the Dissenters so far outnumbered the Episcopalians that the situation was anomalous. Accordingly the Irish Bishops lost their seats in the House of Lords and the Church of Ireland was thrown upon its own resources, greatly to the advantage of that institution, as its members subsequently admitted. The question has been raised as to what would happen to Westminster Abbey...