Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin one of the sturdiest Protestant pastors in the fight against Nazification, famed Rev. Martin Niemoeller, summed up last week's events thus: "The situation is unchanged, since Müller remains Reichsbischof...
Representing the mind of the House of Bishops, this document was written and read by Washington's Bishop Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman. Ranging over a number of social and economic matters, the Pastoral found in the world all manner of unholy ills: "greed . . . indecency . . . degeneracy . . . corruption . . . selfishness . . . unrest . . . hunger . . . despair . . . civil strife . . . indulgence . . . vulgarity . . . ambition . . . infamy . . . hatred . . . suspicion . . . disillusionment . . . privation . . . wickedness . . . misfortune . . . folly." But Bishop Freeman waxed most indignant in contemplating that institution which most plagues his Church-divorce. Tolerant as it has been in some respects, the Episcopal Church has never temporized in its battles against divorce...
When a milk & water birth control resolution came up for discussion by the Bishops, New Jersey's Rt. Rev. Paul Matthews led the opposition with threat to "leave this House forever" if debate were limited. Seattle's Rt. Rev. Simeon Arthur Huston* cried: "We have had a lot of pious twaddle from celibate clergymen who are about as far from knowledge of the realities of life as the man in the moon." Up spoke Nevada's Rt. Rev. Thomas Jenkins: "Vote no! I am not a celibate clergyman. I have raised seven children and sent four...
...Last month Bishop Huston was in court in Seattle to defend his right to oust a rector, Rev. Charles Stanley Mook, without taking counsel with his Standing Committee (TIME, Oct. 8). Last fortnight the court ruled that the Bishop had violated civil and canon...
Died. Rt. Rev. Charles Arthur ("Battling Charlie") Nelson, 44, bishop of Long Island in the United Christian Church of America (577 members); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Long Island City. Son of a Long Island City saloon keeper, he entered the prize ring, quit it when an opponent frightened him by remaining long unconscious after being felled...