Word: nonconformist
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Forward. Made public last week in England was a plan, drafted by the two Anglican archbishops, eleven bishops and representatives of Nonconformist churches (Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Quaker), by which reunion is to be attempted between the Church of England and the Free Churches, whose total membership is 7,000,000. The plan contemplates a church governed by a general assembly, bishops, diocesan synods and congregational councils, new bishops to be chosen from the Free Churches on the basis of their membership. Within this church there would be great freedom of doctrine and worship, but Anglicans would be asked...
...does not conform to it in thought as well as in action. I hardly need give illustrations. We are all too familiar with them, --the news from Russia and Germany almost daily illustrates the intellectual tyranny of a totalitarian state. There can be little room, indeed, for a nonconformist in a country where the Minister of Education declares: "The old idea of Science based on the belief in the supremacy of the abstract intellect is finished. The new Science is sharply differentiated from the conception that its honor lies in the everlasting nature of the search for truth...
...Merivale is now sad because he is a small-town English nonconformist parson who has to live in a ghastly house with a leaking roof, put up with a whining wife, stand for any amount of bulldozing from his parishioners and much bad cooking from a gabbling, ill-trained slattern. He is sadder when one of his younger parishioners runs away. He is a little more cheerful when he goes after her and falls in love with her, but then he is much sadder than ever when she is killed in an off-stage railway wreck from which he escapes...
Like many another boom project, Coral Gables was an almost lifelong dream of a native Floridian. About the Century's turn a penniless, Nonconformist preacher left Cape Cod for the sake of his wife's health, setting out for Florida with his family and chattels in a horse & wagon. Near Miami he staked out a 160-acre grapefruit grove, named it Coral Gables, prospered enough to send his son George north to college. Son George Merrick wrote verse, won a short story contest, abruptly abandoned his literary career when his father died in 1912. Returning to Florida, he became obsessed...
...appeared in this abomination on the streets of Eccles. There, anything abnormal was usually greeted with a shower of brickbats, and the curved and pointed toes of the wooden clogs were studded with rows of brass nails with which to "purr" or kick the shins of the nonconformist. Even a neat patch was regarded with suspicion, its purpose being adequately covered by the cast-off coat of an older and bigger brother...