Word: rectoral
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...Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson, whose Christmas card bore the prayer, got it from a book called Think on These Things by the Rev. Dr. John Ellis Large (rector of Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest), who, in turn, had clipped and saved the original from a newspaper some 25 years ago when he was a student at Hartford's Trinity College...
...October 1928 the ministry at Borley parish had stood vacant for some time. Borley Rectory, a rambling, ramshackle Victorian barn of a house, sprawled on an Essex hillside, had little to offer the wife of any rector. Its roof leaked; its plumbing was in hopeless disrepair; its corners and closets were cluttered with the detritus of ages; rats and mice infested its secret corridors; and many of its rooms were unfurnished. To the Rev. Guy Eric Smith, a man of middle age newly ordained to the ministry, all this was of little account-a parish was a parish. But what...
Sixteen Hours. All or most of this was well known to the villagers of Borley when the Smiths took over their parish. In local pubs the rectory was known as "the most haunted house in England." Within a year, thanks to Rector Smith himself and an enthusiastic ghost hunter named Harry Price, its infamy had spread throughout the nation. Harry Price, an affable hobbyist of independent means, was far and away Britain's best-known investigator of psychic phenomena. His books on the subject were legion and readable, and his spectacular exposures of fake spiritualists were invariably good...
...retracing Price's steps, Dingwall & Co. have found many explanations for the goings-on at Borley that require no ghosts to support them. An early rector, to whom some of the first visions appeared, was found to have been a chronic victim of a disease which caused him to sleep, perchance to dream, almost constantly. Price's own unpublished papers reveal that Mrs. Foyster, the young and restless wife of the aged and ineffective rector who followed the Smiths into Borley Rectory, showed a naughty tendency to fake ghostly manifestations. And Price, himself, it turned...
...preacher at the lectern was the Rev. William Howard Melish, around whose name has swirled the most extraordinary fracas seen in any U.S. church for a long time. In 1949 Long Island's Bishop James P. De Wolfe fired William Melish's father, John Howard Melish, as rector of Trinity, because he would not curb the left-wing activities of his son and assistant pastor. But the vestry and congregation accepted the younger Melish to stay on as acting pastor. By last week, however, a majority of the vestry (now mostly composed of new members) had changed...