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It is time for divine services in the small Protestant church in Nicosia. Sir John Harding, a brave soldier and brilliant commander has fought two wars, led whole armies-including thousands of Cypriots who fought in British uniforms. But he dares not worship alone. A squad of British soldiers precedes...
For the last six years Father Witcutt has been a high-church Anglican curate in London's run-down suburb of East Ham. The freedom of the Church of England is a relief to him. "More and more the Latin liturgy had become an annoyance to me," he writes...
Of these empty pews optimistic Anglican Witcutt notes that the unchurched English are "not bitter anticlericals and atheists, as they would be in a Continental country. They are members of the Church who are at present asleep, and one day someone's voice will wake them."
As Harvard began to grow in the eighteenth century, the meeting house became too small for Commencement exercises, and in 1756, the President sacrificed his orchard to provide space for a larger church. The new structure was a square frame building with fifty-six pews and a gallery in front...
Congregationalist Pope questioned whether a so-called mass audience for religious programs really exists at all. "No matter what we do, we will not compete successfully with Jackie Gleason for the audience out there, not even if we give away free trips to Palestine or old church pews for use...