Word: melish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Howard Melish, party-lining supply minister (for the past seven years) of Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, it was an award-winning week. From the Communist World Peace Council in Vienna last week, he learned that he had won an International Peace Prize of $14,000 and a gold medal for his "devoted . . . struggle for peace and friendship of all the people." From Brooklyn's Appellate Division he won another legal victory in his hassle with Holy Trinity's vestry and the bishop of Long Island over whether they can replace him with...
Five court justices unanimously upheld a previous court decision denying the anti-Melish forces a temporary injunction to restrain Melish from conducting services. Left waiting outside the church: the Rev. Dr. Herman S. Sidener, designated as Holy Trinity's new rector by Bishop James P. DeWolfe of Long Island...
...preacher at the lectern was the Rev. William Howard Melish, around whose name has swirled the most extraordinary fracas seen in any U.S. church for a long time. In 1949 Long Island's Bishop James P. De Wolfe fired William Melish's father, John Howard Melish, as rector of Trinity, because he would not curb the left-wing activities of his son and assistant pastor. But the vestry and congregation accepted the younger Melish to stay on as acting pastor. By last week, however, a majority of the vestry (now mostly composed of new members) had changed...
...Melish did not take the edict lying down. The night before, the anti-Melish faction had changed some 40 church locks to keep Melish out. Melish partisans had countered by tearing off one of the locks. At the 11 o'clock service, the second minister, who had been sent by Bishop De Wolfe, retreated when it became apparent that most of the congregation was following the Rev. Mr. Melish's conduct of the service. The reason that many parishioners back Melish is that they resent the bishop's actions as "High Church" interference...
...church steps afterward, William Melish shook hands with his embattled parishioners. An angry woman strode up to him from the street and said: "You are a disgrace to the church." "I am glad you told me to my face," said William Melish...