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Last Sunday Dr. Guthrie bade St. Marks good-by with a tour of its grounds, which date from 1660, when Peter Stuyvesant worshipped there, later to be buried in the churchyard, in which Rector Guthrie still later kept a pair of peafowl. Two Sundays ago in his sermon Dr. Guthrie paid his respects to Bishop William Thomas Manning with whom he had often clashed-"with him came the bigness of head that goes with new office"-and to the Episcopal Church into which he was born: "I don't know any church I could stand as well...
Died. Very Rev. Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, 56, Canon and Precentor of London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Lord Rector of Glasgow University, famed as Britain's "Broadcasting Parson"; of a heart attack; in London...
...Philadelphia. A well-trained boys' choir should study together, sing together every day, live together in as complete harmony as they sing. Last April Rev. Dr. John Mockridge, ruddy high-church rector of Philadelphia's patrician St. James's Episcopal Church, had 30 boy sopranos selected from 97 applicants in Philadelphia public schools, put them at his congregation's expense in the swank Episcopal Academy on City Line Avenue. Further weeding brought the group down to 20. Dr. Mockridge taught the boys the Episcopal service, had them attend his church in a body every Sunday during...
...past two years Monsignor Haas has spent most of his time in Wisconsin, where he was born 48 years ago, as rector of St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee and member of the State Labor Board. He returns to Catholic University, where in 1922 he took his Ph.D. with a thesis on "Mediation in the Men's Garment Industry," to emphasize the Church's economic teachings, train priests and laymen in organizing social-minded Catholic groups, apply moral laws to economic life. At the University Monsignor Haas will encounter, among other kindred priests, a newly-appointed philosophy professor, Monsignor...
...sort of genial, persuasive, energetic man who takes naturally to public life without becoming a politician, the sort of man who might have become an inner councilor of the New Deal if his tastes and convictions had lain in that direction. Brother of the Riverside Church's Rector Harry Emerson Fosdick, he was born 54 years ago in Buffalo, graduated in 1905 from Princeton (to which university the Rockefellers have now given $700,000), emerged from New York Law School in 1908. Under Mayor McClellan he got into municipal government as assistant corporation counsel, later became Commissioner of Accounts...