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For five years the First Presbyterian Church of New York City has had a queue of people waiting at its doors long before church time. For five years its pews have been jammed, its aisles utilized wherever possible. Yet not for five years has a Presbyterian preacher been the regular...
A synod of the Provinces of New York and New Jersey Protestant Episcopal Church, met at Atlantic City. The following transpired: ¶ The Rev. Paul Matthews, Bishop of New Jersey, berated Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts (TIME, Jan. 14) for disloyalty to the Church, adding: "If the Episcopal Church admits the...
In view of the fact that more than three hundred students took advantage of their opportunity to come early and obtain a seat, and considering the zeal of the public, which was willing to stand and wait outside until practically every student who cared to come had been cared for...
At twenty minutes before nine three men besides myself were seated in the stiff-backed wooden pews. We looked like intruders upon the privacy of the empty pews--sedate and decorous rows conducting themselves as proper pews should. It was so quiet here that the miniature congregation glanced up started...
The chancel door opened and a man in black cassock entered and gravely sat down. He raised his eyes--serious eyes in a face deepened through experience and thought. It was Bishop Brent whose name is associated with man work in the Philippines. The empty pews appeared still emptier.