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...bishop's "godly judgment." Since the Episcopal Church drew up its constitution in 1789, its Canon 42 had been brought into civil court only once before-in New Jersey in 1893. Tortuous and hedged with ambiguities was the question Judge Finley was to decide: had Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston the right to oust Rev. Charles Stanley Mook from Trinity Church without taking counsel with the Standing Committee of his diocese...
...years. Last spring Rector Mook declined to let his salary be cut from $4,000 to $2,400 or to cancel $1,000 the church owed him in arrears. The vestry asked him to resign. When he declined, a vestry committee went to the bishop. Three weeks ago Bishop Huston, whose son Wilber was the first ''prodigy" given a Thomas A. Edison college scholarship (TIME, Aug. 14, 1929), removed Rector Mook and appointed a successor...
Rector Mook obtained a court order temporarily restraining Bishop Huston from ousting him. Last week he was in court seeking to have the order made permanent. Witnesses for the bishop testified that the rector knew that church money had been embezzled; that he refused to prosecute. Furthermore it appeared that Rector Mook had discharged six choir singers, dissolved the Women's Auxiliary and the Daughters of the King-all because the women opposed him. But of most concern to the court and the Episcopal Church were the opinions of five of Bishop Huston's clergy. Unanimously they agreed...
...Bishop Huston stoutly defended his position. If he had called in the Standing Committee, he said, he would have been obliged to disqualify four of its eight members, including Rector Mook himself, as interested parties. Uncertain whether his court had jurisdiction, Judge Finley took the case under advisement...
...DODSWORTH--Last season's most ambitions dramatic success continues after a brief summer rest period. Will continue as a "best" for a long time, although it will never equal many of the record runs scored on theater row. Again headlines Walter Huston, Fay Bainter, Harlan Briggs...