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Sebastien Charléty, rector of the University of Paris (Feb. 29) LL.D...
...months later, James Freeman did so. Bishop Potter helped him read for Holy Orders, had him tutored, ordained him deacon in 1894, priest in 1895. Rector of a Yonkers church for 16 years, he was called to Minneapolis in 1910. When Rector Freeman was considered for the deanship of St. John the Divine or the presidency of St. Stephen's College, the elder J. P. Morgan told him: "You'll not be happy in a town of 300,000 inhabitants. New York is where you belong. You'll be packing your crockery within six months...
...Rector Freeman packed no crockery for eleven years. He declined the Bishop Coadjutorship of West Texas and a Chicago church. In 1921 he went to Washington's Epiphany. Two years later there was a diocesan convention in Washington. The Cathedral's executive secretary, Edwin N. Lewis, says that on that fateful day, on the far-off New York Central Lines many an engineer and fireman leaned from his cab to ask: "How's our Bishop running?" Then they learned that Railman Freeman was a bishop...
...clad only in her nightie - "Taken Rose Ellis on a trip to Paris." Each of these points was taken up by the Bishop's prosecutor, a gentleman who bore the high chivalric names of Charlemagne's champions: Roland & Oliver. Only two women were in court: the rector's wife, who sat among the witnesses, and a dark mysterious woman in scarlet who sat in the balcony, never spoke, fascinated the gentlemen of the Press. White-haired Dr. Davidson rushed into court breathless, flustered, 20 minutes late, followed by an infuriated taxi-driver who shouted that the defendant...
...four members of his regular congregation attended. Even the organist, a cautious lady, stayed away. The white-haired rector stalked down the aisle crying dramatically, "I must have someone to help me!" A grey-haired male stranger volunteered. For evensong rubberneck wagons, taxis, excursion trains brought gaping crowds from miles around. The church was packed. Special police had to handle the crowds. Dr. Davidson preached on the Resurrection, as befitted the season, but added a few personal remarks: "If improper thought comes to us, there is no harm in that whatsoever, because that is Temptation, but we must not encourage...