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...urgent reason a Rector or Minister ... or the Parish committed to his charge, its Vestry or Trustees, shall desire a separation and dissolution of the pastoral, relation, and the parties be not agreed . . . notice in writing may be given by either party to the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese or Missionary District. The Bishop, in case the difference be not settled by his godly judgment, . . may ask the advice and consent of the Standing Committee of the Diocese. . . . -Canon 42 of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...husky, goateed churchman who once was a high-school football coach in North Dakota, 62-year-old Rector Mook had for ten years been at old Trinity Church in Seattle's run-down "First Hill" district. A vigorous social worker, he offended some of his parishioners by encouraging theatrical folk to come to the church. More vexing to the Trinity vestry were financial troubles which had beset the church for four years. Last spring Rector Mook declined to let his salary be cut from $4,000 to $2,400 or to cancel $1,000 the church owed...
...Rector Mook obtained a court order temporarily restraining Bishop Huston from ousting him. Last week he was in court seeking to have the order made permanent. Witnesses for the bishop testified that the rector knew that church money had been embezzled; that he refused to prosecute. Furthermore it appeared that Rector Mook had discharged six choir singers, dissolved the Women's Auxiliary and the Daughters of the King-all because the women opposed him. But of most concern to the court and the Episcopal Church were the opinions of five of Bishop Huston's clergy. Unanimously they agreed...
Bishop Huston stoutly defended his position. If he had called in the Standing Committee, he said, he would have been obliged to disqualify four of its eight members, including Rector Mook himself, as interested parties. Uncertain whether his court had jurisdiction, Judge Finley took the case under advisement...
...Special service for new students in the University Memorial Chapel. The Reverend Arthur Lee Kinsolving, Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, will preach...