Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was Sunday, 11 a.m., time for services in Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church. But, instead of one minister, two were on hand. One led the worship from the pulpit, the other stood at a lectern a few feet away.
The undergraduate liberal tendencies of Rev. William H. Melish '31 prefaced a feud with the Episcopal Church which flared into open revolt last Sunday. Melish openly defied his Bishop by conducting two services in The Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn after he had been officially ousted.
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...
Sometimes this is rewarding. Hymned, the workers' cause has less stridency than when harangued. And when O'Casey's outcast street figures raise their voices in a dream of fair Dublin, there is a sudden sense of a city's voice upraised. But things seem oftener...
Thus Oliver Goldsmith saw the inhabitants of 18th century London. Their armies under Marlborough had defeated Europe's greatest power on its own soil; they had overthrown the old religion and prospered. The revolution of 1688, which guaranteed a Protestant monarch, seemed to have fixed everything. But the bloody...