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...Chicago last week the Factor case was still in a stage too early to be conclusive. The only swindled English people whose names came out were a Rev. & Mrs. Arthur Travers Faber, he the rector at Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham. This rural English couple managed to lose $55,-ooo, so they claim, in stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London. One job was selling stock in the so-called "Glass Casket Company," a speculation peculiarly appealing to the British investor. Another time Mr. Factor was about to mail out some 300,000 glowing descriptions of a platinum mine...
Bishop Lawrence was born in Boston in 1850, and after graduating from Harvard College he attended the Episcopal Theological School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1875. After being ordained deacon in 1875, and priest in 1876, he became Rector of Grace Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1893 he was consecrated Bishop of Massachusetts, resigning the office and title in 1926. He is president of the Church Pension Fund, chairman of the trustees of St. Mark's and Groton Schools, and a member of the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He received...
Accepted, By Rev. Dr. Stephen Edwards Keeler, rector of St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church, famed for its Chicago socialite congregation (he succeeded Rt. Rev. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott, brother of Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School, who is now Bishop of Lexington, Ky.); the call to be Bishop Coadjutor of the diocese of Minnesota, to which he was elected three weeks...
...Dios!" said the rector. "It is not in my power to give you that!" He retired prudently while the students continued to beat the beadle...
Protestant Episcopal Bishop Philip Cook of Delaware, 55, has lived and worked in the sprightly city of Wilmington since 1920. He was born in Missouri on the 4th of July, schooled in Connecticut (Trinity College), has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a rector in San Antonio, Tex., a Y. M. C. A. secretary in France. Last week he preached a lenten sermon at St. Stephen's Church at loth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia. Excerpt...