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...RECTOR OF EPISCOPAL CHURCH IS JAILED ON A CHARGE OF KIDNAPING. MYSTERY OF DISAPPEARING BABIES SOLVED AS CLERGYMAN STANDS ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS...
...Hudson River, in a parish noted for the idiosyncrasy of its rector, there have lately been a number of baptisms. In each of these, at a certain point, the rector has taken the babies to be baptized, following the Prayer Book rubric: Then the minister shall take the child into his arms. ... At the end of the service, however, he has refused to return the baby to the parents...
...foregoing is the substance of a theological joke, appearing in last week's Living Church, Episcopal high church weekly. Explanation: The parish "up on the Hudson River "is Christ Church. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., whose rector. Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, is an energetic and articulate low churchman (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933 et ante). To insure against high church practices, the Christ Church parish board last month passed a by-law requiring the incumbent "to abstain from the use of any ornaments, forms, services, or ritual which are not definitely allowed by the rubrics of the Book of "Common Prayer...
...happened that a good friend of Richard Upjohn was the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainright, assistant rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church. At the time that pious pile's walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...
Assistant Rector Holy Name Cathedral...