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...midst of the 15-acre Vanderbilt plot adjoining the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp, Staten Island, there arose almost 70 years ago a great mausoleum (see cut) in which lie 54 coffins including those of the old Commodore; his son William Henry; his grandsons Cornelius, George Washington, William Kissam; his great-grandson Reginald and his great-great-grandson William K. Jr. Last week Mrs. Vanderbilt was put away with those who, in the words read by Dr. Brooks from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, "are henceforth blessed . . . for they rest from their labors...
Last week, despite the gloomy predictions, the Moravian Trombone Choir climbed to the belfry of Lehigh University's Packer Memorial Chapel, announced the beginning of another Bach Festival. Bach enthusiasts had come from Vermont, Georgia, New York, Minneapolis. Again 240 Bethlehem natives reverently intoned the Mass's pleading Kyrie, the deeply moving Crucifixus, the climactic Et Resurrexit...
...Oldest Easter dawn services in the U. S. are those held in Moravian towns in Pennsylvania, and in Salem, the somnolent, pre-Camel part of Winston-Salem, N. C. Here, beginning at 2 a. m. on Easter morning, bands tour the dark streets playing old Moravian chorales. Toward dawn there is a service at the doorway of old Home Church, then a procession down to the Moravian burying ground, in which the tombstones are all the same size and laid horizontally. Thousands of visitors attend, to hear the Bishop intone "The Lord is risen." The visitors reply, "The Lord...
Biggest decrease: Methodist Episcopal, South: $6,140,845 or 13.7%. Next biggest: Moravian, North, $87,565 or 13.3%. Third biggest: Baptist, Southern, $4,848,128 or 12.3%. All other decreases were less than...
Smallest church giving: Moravian, North...