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Harvard first determined to conduct a ceremonial graduation in 1642 when nine bachelors' degrees were awarded. To that first commencement came, in procession, the same people who will be there this morning: the Governor of the Commonwealth, with his pike-carrying guards mounted on horseback, the ministers of the six towns surrounding the College, various neighboring magistrates, and the Harvard Faculty...
...measured, courteous and utterly lucid words. Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike last week denounced the excesses of glossolalia, the prayer practice in which the worshiper's tongue wags on and on in what seems like gibberish to skeptics. Once chiefly confined to members of pentecostal denominations, glossolalia has lately gained hundreds of adherents among Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, and even Yale students (TIME. March 29). To practitioners, "speaking in tongues" is good for ending alcoholism, repairing broken marriages and furthering the work of Christ. To California's Bishop Pike, it is "heresy in embryo" when there is an overemphasis...
...books are an Episcopal parish ideal. Most slum churches have huge deficits, and mission priests must rely heavily on the generosity of their bishops. The Rev. Robert Cromey, 32, of the Mission District Presbytery in San Francisco, gets strong support-and $30,000 a year-from Bishop James A. Pike. A Brooklyn-born graduate of New York's General Theological Seminary, Cromey believes that "our basic problem is cracking the neighborhood. The measure of our success is not how many people you bring to church but how much impact you make." Cromey's mission has made its impact...
...fear of war, hope of social prestige, or for other nonreligious reasons. Washington's Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord charges that "the church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed." In the nuclear age, suggests San Francisco's puckish Episcopal Bishop James Pike, God became "a sort of tranquilizer pill to a populace keeping a wary eye on the sword of Damocles." Others who joined churches found them not serious enough, or contemptibly unconcerned with corruption and injustice...
...from Pike Who crossed the big mountains with...