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Dennis Filler, a London shipping clerk, went round to see the parson of St. Peter's. The Rev. John Perry, he thought, would be delighted to baptize his two-month-old daughter, Christine Margaret; the vicar had married the Fillers years before, and Dennis had been a lifelong member of St. Peter's in the East End district of Hackney. But at the church, Dennis Filler was told flatly that, considering his spotty record of churchgoing, he would have to take religious instruction before his child could be baptized...
After three weeks of instruction, Filler thought he had enough. But Parson Perry was adamant, and Parent Filler made arrangements to have Christine baptized in the neighboring parish of St. John's. "I think the Church of England must be in a very bad way to revert to forced religion," he said. "It's blackmail...
Swinging down and down to a jolting thud on a field of green alfalfa, Parson Von Norman thought of the 23rd Psalm: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." Pilot Wilson jumped too, and the empty plane crashed. On the ground the men gathered, bruised and nervous. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," someone said. Later, reporters asked the shaken clergymen how they had felt, faced by a moment that often brings even the most hardened sinners to repentance. One of them answered for all. "There was plenty of prayer going on," he said...
...called) was their doctor; when his wife had children, he acted as midwife. He had amiable eccentricities, such as cutting the Communion bread "into small squares, some for the communicants and some for his canaries." But the favorite hobby of this self-assured, broadminded parson was corresponding with growing girls, listening to their troubles and helping them with affectionate advice...
Emily Lytton, daughter of Lord Robert Lytton, British Ambassador to France, and granddaughter of Author Bulwer-Lytton, became one of Parson Elwin's "blessed girls" in 1887. Emily was as rare a bird in her way as Elwin in his: she was in angry rebellion against the Victorian way of life. Urged to become maid of honor to Queen Victoria, Emily snorted: "I must indeed have fallen low to considered just the type to keep company with the royal family...