Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Municipal Auditorium's vast red, white & blue arena. In the army marched bishops from five continents, some in white rochets, some in crimson convocation robes; His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun XXIII, the bearded Patriarch of Assyria, wearing a gorgeous golden cope; Canada's Primate, the Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, Archbishop of Toronto; and at procession's end the U. S. Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia. Beside the high altar, in the shadow of its towering reredos, he was enthroned...
...under the easygoing gavel of Bishop Tucker. (He asked his fellow prelates not to smoke during regular sessions: "I am not a fanatic against smoking but it does seem to me not altogether dignified.") The 500 clerical and lay delegates of the House of Deputies, under their president the Rev. ZeBarney Thorne Phillips of Washington (chaplain of the U. S. Senate), were more noisy, more informal...
...deep-bitten protestant is a rebel in any language. America has seen many such: among the still memorable ones, Rev. John Wheelwright who, with his sister-in-law Anne Hutchinson, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for feeling good;* and Rev. Henry Ward Called Antinomianism by Puritan divines...
Beecher, who wrote his future wife, after graduating from his father's theological seminary: "I cannot assent. What then? Preach I will, licensed or not. . . . Will you go with me into the wilderness?" Today the American wilderness sprouts populations instead of trees. But the protestant blood of the Rev. Mr. Wheelwright, the Rev. Mr. Beecher, and others like them, flows on unchanged-a bright, early-American, rebel...
...earth. Political Self-Portrait is a kind of rebel's hornbook, full of references to the doctrines and deeds of those who Wheelwright felt have most signally helped-and hindered-truth-telling and liberty. On the angels' side, among others, are Prometheus, Jesus Christ, and the old Rev. John. On the other side may be found Cain, Stalin and Archibald MacLeish...