Word: episcopalian
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...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...
...Postponed the concordat proposed in 1937 to unite the Episcopalian and Presbyterian Churches. Nevertheless, for the first time at a General Convention, the Episcopalians held a joint mass meeting with Presbyterians. Cried the Presbyterians' Moderator, Dr. William Lindsay Young (a fraternal delegate at the convention): "My earnest prayer tonight is that I may live to stand before you some time and address, not your church, not my church, but our church...
...clergy could instruct them. Most of the money for this and other missionary work in India comes from the great British missionary boards-one of which, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, sent out such famed 18th-Century missionaries to the U. S. as Methodist John Wesley, Episcopalian John Talbot. Now that Britain has had to cut her missionary giving, U. S. Episcopalians are rallying to help Bishop Azariah and other Anglican missionaries carry...
This year's count for the ministry fell miserably short of last year's five, gaining only one vote, from an Episcopalian. One freshman seemed certain of going into the business of paint and varnish manufacture, suggesting that his choice like many others was influenced by that of his father...
...commission's new version of the marriage canon still forbids Episcopalian marriage for divorced persons, still provides that anyone remarried by a civil ceremony "shall forfeit his or her status as a Communicant." The new feature is a provision that "he or she may apply to any Minister of the Church . . . for the restoration of such status and for a blessing upon their union. The Minister . . . shall then lay the petition and his findings be fore the Bishop. . . . In case of a favorable judgment, the Minister in his discretion may bless the parties to the union, using such parts...