Word: melish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Howard Melish, 74, rector of Brooklyn's Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, got his walking papers last week, but he declined to budge. His bishop fired him, but Rector Melish came right back with the observation that the bishop had no right to do such a thing. He sat pat and so did his son and associate rector, the Rev. William Howard Melish, 38, who was the cause of it all. Young Minister Melish's activities as chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and busy associate of several other organizations cited as Communist...
Brooklyn, which is used to fighting words, had a new one: Melish. The battleground was the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, in fashionable Brooklyn Heights...
Holy Trinity's vestrymen have long looked askance at the sayings & doings of their ministers, Rector John Howard Melish, 74, and his son and associate rector, the Rev. William Howard Melish, 38 (TIME, May 3). Son William, a confirmed Communist-liner, is chairman of the Red-fronting National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and has been associated with at least six other organizations listed as subversive by the Attorney General's office. His father not only tolerates his assistant's political activities, but once referred to them as "the work which the rector himself would have done...
...Consciences Demand. At last, the vestrymen decided to do something about the Melishes. They voted 9 to 1 to petition Long Island's Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe "for separation and dissolution of the pastoral relationship . . ." But spry old Rector Melish was not one to go quietly. He wrote to his congregation telling what the vestry had done...
Last week the battle was in full swing. A "Committee to Retain Our Rector" was busy ringing the doorbells of Holy Trinity's 400-odd voting members, claimed to have 270 signatures already. Though not necessarily agreeing with the Melish political views, the committee's statement said: "We all do agree . . . that they have a right, as we do, to their personal political beliefs, and the further right to engage in such activities, as citizens or as ministers, as their consciences demand...