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...since the last century, when Henry Ward Beecher kissed Mrs. Tilton, has fashionable Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. had a clergyman as controversial as the Rev. William Howard Melish, 44. Melish, an ardent, undeviating representative of the far, far left, has joined, helped found or led almost a score of organizations long since discredited by Communist infiltration. Melish's politics forced his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, out of his job as rector at Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The younger Melish hangs on as acting pastor in his father's church only because the bishop cannot...
...with 30 years' experience in China, was as enthusiastic as his students. He thought that the university's energetic reorganization, inspired by the Communists, was "the most profoundly religious Christian experience I have ever been through." He said so in a letter to the Rev. William Howard Melish, Brooklyn Episcopalian and great & good friend of Soviet Russia. The letter turned up in succession in 1) the leftish Churchman and 2) Soviet Russia Today...
...bishops, John B. Walthour, a Low Churchman, Bishop of Atlanta, and Donald H. V. Hallock, a High Churchman, Bishop-Coadjutor of Milwaukee. Their second story was an impartial review of the stalemate between Long Island's Bishop James P. DeWolfe (High) and the Rev. William Howard Melish (Low and Leftish-see above), whose disputed rectorship is still one of the church's hot potatoes...
...Melishes of Brooklyn were back in the news. Ever since the ouster two years ago of Rector John Howard Melish and his far-leftish son and assistant, William Howard, Brooklyn's Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity has been without a full-time rector. Meanwhile, nine anti-Melish vestrymen (whose petition to Long Island Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe led to the ouster) have been replaced in parish elections. Last week, by a vote of 119 to 11, the congregation handed the new vestrymen the name of the man they want for rector. The name: William Howard Melish. Further...
...this week, embattled Rector Melish announced that he would see it through with his son to the bitter end by appealing to the appellate court. Meanwhile, he and young Melish would take no part in the services at the church which he has headed for 45 years. "My family and I," he announced, "will attend . . . as members of the parish...