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Last week the West Missouri diocese voted Bishop Welles his proposed commission, though there were some tilted eyebrows at the papish smell of the scheme. In Washington, B.C., Bishop Angus Dun of the National Cathedral was cool and cautious: "I would say that in the main prayerbook tradition, the word 'saint' is not attached to particularly selected individuals, but, as in the New Testament, to the community of those set apart by the calling...
...when they stood side by side at their father's coronation, wearing identical robes of royal purple, trimmed with ermine. Reporters, cameramen and radio commentators were fascinated at the sight of six-year-old Margaret yawning, stretching, tapping her silver slippers, riffling through the pages of a prayerbook, and tickling her sister, while eleven-year-old Elizabeth frowned and nudged her in lofty, outraged dignity. The reporters might have been even more fascinated had they been in the palace earlier and seen Princess Margaret kick up one of her first and worst tantrums. When she learned that Elizabeth...
This year, after 385 years of thinking it over, the Church of England decided to do something about the Table. Every Anglican prayerbook contains the Table of Kindred and Affinity*−"Wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together." These mari, tal prohibitions (drawn up in 1560 by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker) were based mainly on the famed sexual rules & regulations of Leviticus XVIII. Specifically, the Table banned marriage with brothers-and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces...
...foot, sandy-haired Robert Fiske Bradford, 41, ninth direct descendant of old Governor William Bradford, the Mayflower Pilgrim who governed Massachusetts for 30 one-year terms with a blunderbuss in one hand and a prayerbook in the other. Young Bradford is the kind of Harvard graduate who still sculls on the Charles twice a week, and repairs to a Maine cottage every summer with his blueblood wife and four children. But he also knows when to call a tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick...
Side by side the two men listened to George Washington's Prayer for the U.S. (". . . that thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government. . . ."), a prayer "In Time of War" from the English prayerbook (". . . grant us victory, if it be thy will. . . ."), a prayer from the American Book of Common Prayer ("Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage. . . ."-TIME, Dec. 15). The hymns were militant : God of Our Fathers, Once To Every Man and Nation (James Russell Lowell's great hymn), America...