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...Protestant Episcopal Church stands midway between U. S. Catholicism and U. S. Protestantism. Many Protestants, remembering instances of Episcopalian refusal to recognize the validity of other Protestant orders (latest instance: Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning's) forbidding Dr. Karl Reiland to allow Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin to officiate at a communion service in an Episcopal church (TIME, Nov. 25), think Episcopalians have no right to call themselves Protestants. Many high-church Episcopalians agree with them, dislike the name Protestant, would like to change their church's name to something like American Catholic.* Last week...
Manning's Command. A non-sectarian Protestant organization calling itself the Christian Unity League (president, Baltimore's Dr. Peter Ainslie, Disciple of Christ) planned a conference in Manhattan for last week. Dr. Karl Reiland, Liberal Episcopal preacher, a member of the league, invited the conference to meet at his church, St. George's. A feature of the three-day meeting was to be a communion service conducted by the Presbyterian Liberal Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. When newspapers announced the service, those who knew Bishop William Thomas Manning...
Never to be caught out on a point of church law, Bishop Manning consulted 77-year-old lawyer George Zabriskie, for 25 years Chancellor of the Diocese. Then he wrote Dr. Reiland a letter forbidding the service. The letter referred to the book of common prayer, last court of appeal in Episcopalian disputes, which says: "... No man shall be ... suffered to execute any of the said functions [of the ministry] . . . except ... he hath had Episcopal consecration or ordination." Said the bishop's letter: "I must earnestly beg you, and I do hereby officially admonish you, not to carry...
...Reiland, "greatly disappointed," did not despair. For he too had legal counsel: Lawyers Robert Fulton Cutting, civic-minded Manhattan millionaire (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927) and George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him that the prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop...
...George's Church has intransigent traditions. One of Dr. Reiland's predecessors, Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (rector 1882-1906), had many a difference over church affairs with his senior warden John Pierpont Morgan (father of the present J. P.) and was finally forced to resign because of his too-liberal beliefs. After Dr. Rainsford's resignation, Financier Morgan presented him with a house in the country, near Ridgefield, Conn., where he still lives, snowy-haired, patriarchal, surrounded with trophies of his big-game hunts...