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Famed for a sexagenarian romance and for fearless unorthodox sermons, Percy Stickney Grant resigned his office. He had for 31 years been rector of the Church of the Ascension, near Greenwich Village, Manhattan, in the Bishopric of William T. Manning, Cathedral-builder...
...soon as the Vestry had accepted his resignation, Dr. Grant sprang into a taxi and rushed off to the Grand Central Station, accompanied by an unidentified grey-haired woman. He was discovered that evening at Beaver Lodge in Bedford Village, N. Y. For three years the rector had been publicly engaged to Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, captivating gentle woman, in her late forties. Mrs. Lydig married W. E. D. Stokes in 1895 when she was only 16. Divorcing him later, she married a gallant officer, Major Philip M. Lydig, divorced him in Paris in 1919 for incompatibility. Because...
...exhaustive investigation of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas?so-called "Darkest Dallas"? conducted by The Churchman. It developed the amazing story of a die-hard Bishop, and a Hell-and-Garden-of-Eden Baptist, united with the Ku Klux in a bond of enmity against a liberal Rector...
...Heaton is rector of Trinity Parish in Fort Worth, Tex., the only Episcopal parish in the residential section. An element in the parish desired to get control for purposes not entirely spiritual. Failing to dominate the rector, they decided to oust him and last year seized upon his theology as a pretext and charged him with heresy. The Bishop-one Harry Moore-apparently took fright at the storm of protest from beyond the borders of Texas and "quashed" the heresy proceedings on the ground that certain Northern Bishops were as liberal as the rector. But the Bishop left the stigma...
...Rector Heaton still kept going about, preaching "love." Finances weakened, so he began canceling his salary. Most of his parish stuck with him, and more came into his fold. Big battalions were needed to finish him. Enter the Ku Klux Klan. First of all, the Klan presented to the disgruntled section of Heaton's parish a completely equipped meeting room which they were to use until a rival Episcopal Church could be built. Big men in the Klan-bossed state were lined up in the little parish fight. The Bishop, the Searchlight, the Klan -it seemed that Heaton could hold...