Word: episcopalian
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Genial, white-haired Rev. George B. Gilbert has lived near Middletown, Conn, for 42 years, never moving his residence more than a mile and a half. An Episcopalian, he calls himself a circuit rider. First with a buggy, then with a Model T Ford, now with a big, seven-passenger Nash, he has cared for an area 100 miles square. Three churches claim him in turn every Sunday, one of them giving him hot coffee to go with his picnic lunch: Emmanuel in Killingworth, Epiphany in Durham, St. James in Haddam...
Also that year in Owosso, 100 miles from Harbor Beach, little Tommy Dewey, aged 3, toddled about his Episcopalian father's home, unaware of religion or abstinence...
...Chief radio critic of Orator Coughlin is Father William Charles Kernan (pronounced Kernan), a Yale-trained ('23) high church Episcopalian, rector of Bayonne, N. J.'s Trinity Episcopal Church. Last fortnight, in the fourth of a series of anti-Coughlin blasts on Manhattan Station...
...little German girl mocked children of an Episcopalian minister at their prayers, threw the Bible on the floor and danced around it. Reproached, she said: "I thought this was a democracy and I could do whatever I liked...
...beginning of each day's session. Senate Chaplain Ze Barney Thorne Phillips* and House Chaplain James Shera Montgomery each have one funny name and a sonorous baritone. Both are popular, convivial; both officiate at more Congressional funerals (no extra pay) than at weddings and baptisms. Chaplain Phillips, 63, Episcopalian, has held office for twelve years, conducts a Washington parish on the side. Chaplain Montgomery, 74, Methodist, has been on the job in the House for 18 years, has given up his Washington church...