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...Reverend Henry Knox Sherrill, D.D., Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock Sunday morning...
...Reverend Robert Norwood, Rector of St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...cotton planter, Mr. Blackshear became Rector of St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn last June. The congregation knew he had been trained at the Virginia Theological Seminary and had done graduate work at Oxford and Harvard. They knew he was a captain in the War, cited for bravery. They knew he was 36 years old. What they did not realize was that like any true southerner Mr. Blackshear believes Negro and white civilization can at the best be parallel, never equal. This lesson he taught them dramatically at a Sunday service...
...among whom were a few Negroes, a notice he had printed in the church bulletin: "The Episcopal Church provides churches for Negroes. Several of these churches are within easy reach of this locality. They are in the need of the loyal support of all true Negro churchmen. Therefore, the rector of this parish discourages the attendance or membership in this church of members of that race...
Amid a rising storm of comment, Rector Blackshear stuck to his announcement, explained he had done it as a matter of "church policy" and as a "friend to the Negro race." Reasons he gave were: "I do not wish to take support from the two churches for colored people in the neighborhood. Furthermore, in these congregations Negroes can develop their power of leadership, whereas in white congregations they are bound to be subdued...