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...National Republic Club, Manhattan. Nathan Krass, famed rabbi, made an impassioned appeal for unity among Catholics, Protestants and Jews to foster religious instruction. Said he: "The one great church in America that has done its duty (in this respect) is the Catholic Church." Whereupon Ernest Stires, famed P. E. rector of St. Thomas, said that criticism of the parochial school system of the Catholic Church by non-Catholics should be deferred until other churches had done as much for religious education...
Bishop Lawrence, one of the most notable graduates of the University, has had a long and distinguished career. After receiving the Bachelorship of Sacred Theology in 1875, he immediately entered the Episcopal Church and became rector of Grace Church, Lawrence, Mass. In 1884 he gave up this position to become professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, where he remained until 1893. In that year he was consecrated bishop of Massachusetts. Ever since then, outside of his official duties, he has devoted his time to historical studies and the writing of numerous books...
...year Dr. Grant has been Rector of the Church of the Ascension in New York City. Lately this church has become one of the centers of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, because of Dr. Grant's courageous stand for Modernism. His popular method of expounding the Gospels has attracted thousands to his church every week...
North of 42nd Street, Manhattan, there are two fashionable Episcopalian churches: St. Bartholomew's (Dr. Leighton Parks, rector), St. Thomas' (Dr. Ernest M. Stires, rector). Rector Parks, urged by conscience, has involved himself in theological controversy. Rector Stires...
...became known that one of Rector Parks' parishioners was attending services at Rector Stires' church. She had been for 50 years-ever since she taught Sunday School-a pillar of Rector Parks' church. She had given the church its magnificent Byzantine entrance, a memorial to her husband. She had endowed the church's hospital. She was-is-Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.* Whether Mrs. Vanderbilt will transfer her allegiance is a matter of conjecture. Rectors Parks and Stires are good friends, the former having ofttimes supported the latter for a bishopric, notably in the election which resulted...