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...Marshall M. Milton 28-year-old Episcopal rector of Brandon Parish, Prince George County, Va., got a year's leave to ferry bombers to Britain...
Later he ran away for four days, walked 50 miles to spend the night (chastely) with a local trull, who told him: "You are too innocent to be a priest. You will be a great failure." Rector MacNabb suggested that for penance Francis write 2,000 words on "The Virtue of Walking." Wrote the local priest: "Naturally, the pinnacle of achievement would have been the conversion of the woman ... as the result of our young apostle's visitation! But alas! She has gone into partnership with another madam and opened a brothel in Barcelona, which I grieve to report...
Since I was rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Kittanning, Pa. (1927-36) ... I take personal responsibility for having introduced the new prayer in Mr. Gilpin's home parish. But let Mr. Gilpin recall 1) that Mr. Hoover was President at that time, and 2) that I was a Democrat in politics in Kittanning at that time...
Louis L. PERKINS Rector The Church of the Good Shepherd Shelton, Conn...
...several years I have carried a $5 bill to be laid upon the collection plate at any service where the time-honored "bless" prayer was used. It was only last Sunday at our local church that I parted with my bill. Our new rector told me afterwards that it had not been a mistake but intentional...