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Social Christianity. Under the leadership of tall, dominating Dr. William S. Rainsford, rector from 1883 to 1905, St. George's became the first great "institutional" church in the U.S. Rector Rainsford knew how to get hard work as well as hard cash from the rich among his parishioners,* startled ecclesiastical mossbacks by organizing a trade school, sewing school, boys' club, men's club and summer camps under church auspices. Young clergymen coveted appointments as his assistants to learn this new technique of urban church-with-community-center. St. George's set a popular pattern...
Colonel Gordon, who thinks cancellous bone may eventually outmode metal plates, says he did not originate the idea. It was suggested last year by Dr. Rainsford Mowlem of New Zealand, who uses it to repair noses...
...pioneer institutional church in the U. S. was St. George's (Episcopal) on Manhattan's Stuyvesant Square. When its most famed rector. Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, arrived in 1883 he asked and got, from a vestry of which the elder J. P. Morgan was a member, $10,000 a year to spend as he pleased on parish clubs, a summer camp, gymnasium and schoolroom. Dr. Rainsford died at 83 in 1933. Dedicated to him on his birthday last Sunday was a memorial of which he would have approved - Rainsford House, first innovation of St. George's rector...
...tall, solemnly nice-looking Yaleman who was pious in college (class of 1919) and not ashamed of it, Elmore McKee was Yale's Episcopal chaplain from 1926 to 1930, then rector of Buffalo's swank Trinity Church until St. George's called him. In Rainsford House Rector McKee, 42, has settled ten budding Manhattan "businessmen" just out of college. They will live there for a year or so, paying $15 a week for board and lodging, and in their spare time do social-service work at St. George's and in Manhattan settlement houses. A phrase...
Leverett O: l.e., Tenney. Weidling, Hausserman, Landry, Harkness, Seamans, Gibby. q., Spang. Rainsford, Daughadoy, Rabenold. Substitutes: Hamill, Dawes, Christensen, Day, Duncan, Heywood...