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Episcopal. The Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop: "Our clergy and people are overwhelmingly back of the President....In comparison with the attitude of the clergy in April 1917, I should say that today there is a deeper appreciation of danger to our country than existed at the beginning of the last...
...Cheyenne. Columnist Lee Casey of Rocky Mountain News pointed up the change 81 years had brought: "Denver's first bishop was its first priest; Denver's first archbishop will have two suffragan bishops, 437 priests and 180,250 communicants in his jurisdiction." Archbishop-elect is the Most Rev. Urban John Vehr, Bishop of Denver...
Head Coach Richard C. Harlow of the Harvard football team will bring to the pulpit of the First Baptist Church Sunday a story of football, character and religion....Coach Harlow's appearance will assume the form of an interview, in which Rev. Mr. Fowler will ask the Harvard mentor questions, the answers to which are intended to show the relationship of football with character and religion. The pastor will then preach on "The Spirit of Notre Dame." --From the Boston Globe...
...Japanese have held three fundamentalist Presbyterian missionaries incommunicado in Manchukuo since Oct. 22. Protests by the U.S. State Department have failed even to elicit the charge against the missionaries. Four days after the arrest at Harbin, the Japanese hustled the trio-Dr. and Mrs. Roy M. Byram, the Rev. Bruce Hunt-500 miles south to Antung, on the Korean border. Probable reason: to make them testify at the trial of the Korean Christians arrested for refusing to take part in State Shinto rites. Secondary reason: to frighten remaining U.S. missionaries out of Manchukuo...
Died. The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, 91, Episcopal Bishop Emeritus of Massachusetts; in Milton, Mass. Member of a famed, textile-wealthy New England family, he attracted attention outside the church as a phenomenal fund raiser. He got $5,000,000 for Harvard from George F. Baker, raised $1,000,000 for Wellesley, $1,000,000 for increased Harvard teaching salaries, raised $8,500,000 to start the Church Pension Fund for retired Episcopal clergymen. He became Bishop at 42, served actively for 33 years. His son, the Rt. Rev. William Appleton Lawrence, is Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts...