Word: revs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scholarship, I remember walking with him into the cathedral library in Exeter when he demanded that the librarian show him the famous Exeter Book, an Anglo-Saxon classic and great literary treasure nearly 700 years old. Before the librarian, Rev. Dr. Bishop, could produce the book from the safe, my friend repeated its first hundred lines in Anglo-Saxon entirely from memory, sweeping the librarian quite off his feet with astonishment...
...Take thou authority to execute the office of deacon," said Rt. Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to a tall, blond young man in the Cathedral of St. John in Providence, R. I. one day last week. The young man's mother and two beaming aunts sat in nearby pews. To assist the red-robed Episcopal primate in the job at hand were the young man's onetime headmaster as preacher, his younger brother as crucifer, two of his cousins as crosier-bearer and litanist. His hands trembling with emotion, Bishop Perry...
...Rev. Dr. Henry William Greist, whose hospital is the northernmost on the American Continent, announced last week that after 16 years at Barrow, Alaska he and his wife must leave their stern post. Reason: ill health. Since 1920, Dr. & Mrs. Greist have been "outside" only once, eleven years ago. Now, after a visit with relatives in California, a visit to Monticello, Ind. where Dr. Greist left a private hospital to go to Alaska, a visit with their only child David at Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys, the Greists are going to Europe, perhaps to Africa. That is where...
...carry on Dr. Greist's pastoral work, the Presbyterians have assigned Rev. Frederick G. Klerekoper, 1933 graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. Mrs. Klerekoper is a trained nurse...
Died. Most Rev. James Anthony Walsh, 69, Titular Bishop of Siene, co-founder and Superior General of the Maryknoll Fathers (Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America); of pneumonia: at Maryknoll, Ossining...