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...case any of their flock did not know how to act, priests added a postscript to the Archbishop's letter: "Your pastor and the other priests of this parish have discontinued their subscriptions to the Sunpapers. ... I am notifying the firms with which I deal to send me statements in full. ... I shall notify them it will be impossible for me to be guided by advertisements in papers which I do not read...
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...rich Julia Smith, in whose backyard is the grave of an ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston heard about it, of course, but he had been a pastor too long to pay much attention to the chatter of womenfolk. Besides, he had plenty of stanch supporters, and he loved his prim, 205-year-old Caroline Episcopal Church, with the mark of British bullets on its belfry. That was how it began, but it ended last week in court...
...Church in the U. S. A. last month expressed willingness to merge (TIME, June 11). A candidate for moderator was Dr. Francis Scott McBride, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. The United Presbyterians, however, gave a clear majority to Rev. Dr. John Alvin Orr, 59, suave, well-dressed pastor of Pittsburgh's wealthy First Church and president of that city's Citizens' League. Two days later the assembly voted 123-to-113 against submitting to the 67 presbyteries of the United Church the proposal to merge with the Presbyterian Church...
...awoke from a sound sleep on the 13th floor of the Blackstone Hotel to discover that she had been robbed of a $60,000 pearl necklace, a $1,100 pair of diamond-studded lorgnettes. Five thousand curious Texans gathered at the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth to watch Pastor J. Frank Norris baptize Jack Dempsey Floyd, 9-year-old son of Outlaw Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd. Said Jack Dempsey Floyd: "I want to be a preacher or a lawyer when I grow up." In St. Louis, detectives pulled from a freight car a young man who said...