Word: episcopalian
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These were the words with which Buffoon Will Rogers described the invocation of the deity at the sessions of the Republican Convention (see p. 9). Will Rogers spoke without reverence but he spoke the truth. Four divines - an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Hebrew and a Methodist-had. prayed on four successive days with a great air of spontaneity but without lifting their eyes from the written page to God. Though extemporaneous outpourings could only reasonably have been expected from the Methodist, it was a pity, devout observers felt, that the appearance, at least, of immediate inspiration had not been affected...
There were two questions. This was the first: Did Sebastian Spering Kresge, multi-millionaire proprietor of 5 & 10 cent stores, famed philanthropist and supporter of the Anti-Saloon League, devout Methodist Episcopalian churchman, commit a breach of conduct with Miss Gladys Ardelle Fish, with whom he arranged a rendezvous at the door of a fashionable Manhattan Church, and with whom detectives later discovered him to be consorting in a nearby apartment? The answer to this question, determined last week by the judicial decision upon Mrs. Kresge's uncontested suit for divorce, was yes. The second question, raised...
Died. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, 80, author (The Last of the Heretics, an autobiography), lecturer, onetime Episcopalian clergyman, convicted of heresy in 1906 for denial of the doctrine of the virgin birth and the divinity of Jesus; in Rochester...
...Episcopalians. Except for its close linkage to the English Government, the Church of England's organization is practically that of the Protestant Episcopalian Church in the U. S., and the Episcopalian churches of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and other areas of the British Commonwealth. The hierarchy of those churches is composed of deacons, priests and bishops. The bishops govern. No ecclesiastical authority is above them, except where, as in England there are archbishops. The archbishops, however, act somewhat as do chairmen of corporate boards of directors. They lack inherent power of command. (In the Roman Catholic Church the Government...
...next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund P. Easterbrook, 62-year-old Methodist Episcopalian. Chagrined, Col. Axton announced that he would join the staff of Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.). The chief of Chaplains will become College Chaplain...