Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must earnestly beg you, and I do hereby officially admonish you, not to carry out your plans for the above-mentioned communion service at St. George's Church." Furthermore, the bishop characterized the policy of the Christian Unity League as "a strangely mistaken and a clearly disruptive one. The members of the Christian Unity League will not aid the cause of unity by seeking to force their views on others, and certainly not by trying to override and break down the laws of churches to which they do not belong...
...These Carnal Things." Bishop Manning's letter, printed in Manhattan newspapers, elicited a reply from Dr. Coffin, who declared: "The ministry of the church in which I serve has as unbroken a tradition, reaching back to the earliest age, as any ministry in Christendom-if one cares to boast of these carnal things.† I would not willingly expose this ministry to such disparagement as appears to be put upon it by Bishop Manning...
...George's Church has intransigent traditions. One of Dr. Reiland's predecessors, Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (rector 1882-1906), had many a difference over church affairs with his senior warden John Pierpont Morgan (father of the present J. P.) and was finally forced to resign because of his too-liberal beliefs. After Dr. Rainsford's resignation, Financier Morgan presented him with a house in the country, near Ridgefield, Conn., where he still lives, snowy-haired, patriarchal, surrounded with trophies of his big-game hunts...
Married. William W. Willock Jr., 21, heir to $120,000,000, grandson of Pittsburgh's late Steelman Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr. (Jones & Laughlin Co.); and one Adelaide Ingebretsen, 20, Willock household chambermaid, lately of Norway; at Oyster Bay, L. I. They met while he was tinkering in his machine shop on his father's East Norwich, L. I., estate. Said he: "My father had a good time getting where he is, and I can have a good time with Adelaide, too." Said she: "I liked him because he was so democratic with all the servants." Willock Sr. declared...
Appointed. Dr. Joseph Carter, one-time (1921-22) Brown University halfback and 100-yd. dasher, as admitting physician at Harlem Hospital; first Negro so appointed to New York City hospitals...