Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest ranking official in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S. is the Presiding Bishop?at present Rhode Island's Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry. The ranking diocese, Episcopalians agree, is that of New York, now ruled by Bishop William Thomas Manning. But several individual churches pay their rectors more than they do their bishops. Of these, none is older, none richer than Trinity Church at the top of Wall Street in Manhattan...
...York Harbor, a mighty shaft to honor our first President and a noble monument to our great Lincoln, in Washington, but we have no statue of Christ anywhere to signify that we are actually Christians and that we recognize Him as Christ the King." So last month spoke Rev. John Joseph Preston, a modest, retiring, 60-year-old Roman Catholic priest, at the outdoor Wayside Shrine of the Passion which he founded near his church in Kearny, N. J. Father Preston was well aware that on the Chilean-Argentine boundary is the great Christ of the Andes, 26 ft. high...
...went into politics-the late Lord Edward (Egypt), the present Marquess (see p. 13), Lord Hugh (House of Commons), Lord Robert (League of Nations). A fifth son went into the church. Last September U. S. hostesses fluttered, U. S. churchmen threw open their pulpits, at the arrival of Rt. Rev. Lord Rupert Ernest William Gascoyne-Cecil, 69, Bishop of Exeter. An ''Ambassador of Peace and Good Will" like his League-of-Nations brother, the Lord Bishop came to preach...
...wedding to avoid public exposure. After an organ prelude including Bach's Prelude in E flat minor from "The Well-Tempered Clavichord" and "Blessed Jesu. We Are Here," the grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese pink lilies. Facing Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and a chancel hedged with tall cypress trees, boxwood and more chrysanthemums, Groom Rockefeller ended the ceremony with the unusual words, "With this ring I thee wed and promise thee a husband's protection and care." The bride wore a short veil, severe gown, long train...
...Died. Rev. Dr. Harry Malcolm Chalfant, 63, a co-founder of the Anti-Saloon League; of pneumonia; in Washington...