Word: nonconformists
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...Bloody, Bold and Resolute." Editor Dent, the son of a nonconformist preacher, has given the Times's still ponderous, now reformist educational supplement more influence in England than any general educational magazine has in the U.S. He likes to quote Shakespeare: "Be bloody, bold and resolute," and he has a popular cause in Britain's war-born determination that higher education shall not be confined to England's moneyed classes...
...Formed a unique Council of Christians and Jews whose joint presidents are Britain's five top-ranking ecclesiastics-the Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican), the Moderator of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council (Nonconformist), Arthur Cardinal Kinsley (Roman Catholic Primate of England), and Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz of the British Empire. Only remotely similar organization is America's National Conference of Christians and Jews-and it has no such official church backing, especially among Catholics...
...Organized a British Council of Churches, whose 112 Anglican, Presbyterian and Nonconformist members will serve as "an official representative organization for common planning and action." The closest counterpart is America's Federal Council of Churches-which again has never had such a galaxy of top-flight sponsorship...
...Charles Jenkins," wrote Schoolteacher John, "married a Russian girl and Timoshenko (Timothy Jenkins) is their eldest son. Timo's grandfather was the Rev. Caractacus Jenkins, a fine nonconformist preacher in both English and Welsh . . . and he was also a Welsh bard...
Both the Church of England and Nonconformist sects joined in the drive to put religion into the schools. Even the Roman Catholics approved the move. Gone were the inter-church squabbles that helped secularize British and American schools in the first place...