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...Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, high on a knoll overlooking Springfield, Mass., one day last week gathered seven Episcopal bishops, their clergy and many a rich and cultivated worshiper. The grey-haired, 86-year-old retired Bishop of Massachusetts mounted the pulpit, preached on "The Quickening of the Spirit." Almost abruptly terminating his sermon, the oldster fixed his gaze upon a tall, younger man sitting at a table in the centre aisle. "My son!" said he, "my father used to say to me again and again, 'No man has ever been blessed throughout life as I have been...
...Bishop William Lawrence descended from the pulpit. William Appleton Lawrence, 47, who had stood up quickly when addressed as "My son," advanced to the altar. Bishop Lawrence and his six colleagues, including President Bishop James De Wolf Perry, laid their hands upon the bald pate of the man whom the Episcopalians of Western Massachusetts had elected their Bishop (TIME...
...made such a hit that it was published as a book. A love-starved public called for more. By 1917 a popular edition of Elinor Glyn's books sold a million copies. Her most famed tale. Three Weeks (1907), which she wrote in six, raised a storm in pulpit and press, was widely condemned as wicked. But most of its critics, says Elinor Glyn, never read the book, consequently did not realize its moral message. She gave one such critic, a Scottish professor of the History of Religions, a copy of Three Weeks to read, found him later...
Maude Royden gave up her Guildhouse pulpit for good last month, planning to devote all her time in future to preaching Peace. She is no stranger to the U. S. Upon her second arrival, in 1927, many a non-religious person went to hear her talk largely because bluenoses had cackled that she smokes an occasional cigaret. Last week ship newshawks did not bother to ask her about smoking. Said...
Ousted from Sister Aimee's pulpit last autumn, Sister Rheba has filed a slander suit for $1,080,000 against her onetime colleague. Last week Rheba Crawford was battling Satan on her own hook, speaking over the radio, packing 1,600 people at a time in her new, small International Interdenominational Church, sermonizing on such subjects as "I Turn My Back" and "Tomorrow's Headlines" while her aged mother, a Salvation Army Lassie, strummed the guitar...