Word: galion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Brown was deposed from the Episcopal Church as a heretic two months ago. Before holding office in Ohio, he was Bishop of Arkansas from 1899-1912. He was priest in charge of Grace Church, Galion, Ohio, in 1884. Since then he has been a general missionary and archdeacon of Ohio and also a special lecturer an the theological seminary...
...Cathedral, sat down on a red-carpeted platform slightly lower than a presidential dais occupied by William A. Leonard, the venerable diocesan of Ohio. They were a court of appeal. They proceeded to hear the case of William Montgomery Brown, onetime bishop of Arkansas, now living in retirement in Galion, Ohio, who, some months since, had been pronounced a heretic by another court of bishops...
...little wild. Men did not love one another utterly. His talk became wilder, and began to grate upon vestrymen and other bishops with bank accounts. At a general meeting, in Boston, he was nearly mobbed. Finally his health broke, and in 1912 he resigned, went to live in Galion, Ohio, the Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, ex-Bishop of Arkansas...
Bishop Brown, in Galion, Ohio, shows signs of fight. The church is full of heretics, says he, and he will not get out until the other heretics get out. Then he makes the crack which is intended to smart in high places: "Is it my theology or my economics that is being attacked?" It is, of course, his economics, which even the Modernist handles with care...
...thus, for differing reasons, every normal American objects to the aged and mentally warped Brown of Galion, Ohio...