Word: rector
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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...
Chairman of American-Soviet Friendship is Rev. William Howard Melish, 36-year-old associate rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity of Brooklyn. The Rev. Mr. Melish makes no bones about admiring the not-so-holy trinity of Marx, Lenin & Stalin. He wrote in the Communist New Masses that he was "impressed by the substantial truth of Marxist methods of social and economic analysis." He is a supporter of Manhattan's Jefferson School of Social Science, a Communist incubator. In the latest Reporter, the Council's four-page bimonthly which Rev. Mr. Melish edits...
...late rector of St. Paul's School was a man whose voice was sonorous and whose sentiments had style. St. Paul's boys, who called him "The Drip" long before that phrase had its present teenage connotation, never took him to their hearts, but educators knew Dr. Samuel Smith Drury as a man whose broadsides usually struck home. His bustling, benign successor, the Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, has neither style nor sonority, but he too hits his target. Last week, speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration at Connecticut's Choate School, Dr. Nash took...
...social work in New Haven's slums. At Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge he stood out as the most respected, though youngest, member of his class. He was ordained a priest at 24, while assisting at Boston's famed, gloomy Trinity Church, where later he became rector. In 1930, at 39, he was consecrated Bishop of Massachusetts...
Quentin Huang, who before the war had been rector of a parish in Nanchang for about ten years, will be Bishop of Kunming, a diocese covering the two southeast provinces of Yunnan and Kweichow. Almost one and a half times as large as California (158,297 sq. mi.), it has an estimated population of 24,000,000; 20% of its people are tribal, all are poor. Only a handful are Christian. Said Bishop Huang after his consecration: "Our opportunities are many, our challenges are great-and our needs in personnel and funds are enormous...