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...immersed in his pleasant scholar's routine was Parson Dottery that he clean forgot the Bishop's visitation: when that worthy arrived to hold confirmation, all confirmable youths and maidens were at Shelton fair. So pretty Lottie Truggin, already confirmed, had episcopal hands laid on her again. Thus began Parson Dottery's troubles. But everyone, with the exception of the evil-minded Canon Dib-ben, his no less evil-minded wife, did what they could to help their parson: his housekeeper, Mrs. Taste, his sexton, Truggin, Farmer Spenke, Publican Toole. Everybody in the village was a character...
...Testament he says: "One might hesitate to liken it to any modern work of the first credibility, such as Boswell's Johnson or Eckermann's Gespräche mit Goethe, but it is certainly quite as sound as Parson Weems' Life of Washington or Uncle Tom's Cabin." His concluding remarks are a typical piece of Menckenian irony: he describes a hanging he once reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner...
...before Ludendorff launched his spring offensive. The first barrage shattered Chaplain Warne's nerve. For the next three weeks of nightmare, as the lines bent daily backward but never quite broke, he was in an increasing agony of bewildered fear and uselessness. Said one of the mess: "This parson of ours came out, I should say, thinking he was going to preach a Jihad.* All parsons do, to a certain extent. And what happens-some of 'em turn into quite good mess caterers, and that's about all." Chaplain Warne did not even turn into a good...
...still called herself by her maiden name) lived first at Harlech; then on Boar's Hill, outside Oxford, where they tried the disastrous experiment of keeping a shop; then at Islip, a village the other side of Oxford. Four children were born in these years. At Islip the parson made the great mistake of asking Hero Graves to read some of his poetry to the congregation. Hero Graves obliged by reading some of the ghastliest of Poets Wilfred Owen's, Siegfried Sassoon's war verses; scandalized the flock. In May, 1929, Graves and his wife separated...
...churchmen who listened to the buzz last September when Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Brooklyn Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the same sort gave churchmen something more to buzz about. Pastor Adelbert J. Helm of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church announced his resignation. Reason: his church council's refusal of membership to a Negro man, a Negro woman...