Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rev. James W. Fifield Jr. is the live wire that lights and powers Los Angeles' First Congregational Church and has given it the biggest Congregationalist congregation in the U.S. Last week, in his church paper, Pastor Fifield wrote with characteristic frankness...
...There are too many people . . . who think that the Kingdom of God is just something you hire a preacher to worry about so the congregation can relax." In fact, said 27-year-old Rev. Harmon H. Bro of the Christian Church of Lanark, Ill., his church's 100 members were so relaxed that only about 30 attended services regularly, and church revenue was steadily declining. "This calls for a drastic step," he added. "The only thing I can think of is to set an example...
...taking Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill and the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, ex-dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit...
Grave Fears. Now, with two Episcopal clergymen marrying divorcees (one of them with two living husbands), it looked to the opponents of the canon as if chaos had come indeed. The Right Rev. William T. Manning, retired Bishop of New York but still as vigilant as ever, sparked the Living Church editorial with a letter published in the same issue. He did not directly mention the two consenting bishops involved-William Robert Moody of Lexington (Ky.) and Frank W. Creighton of Michigan-but he left no doubt about what he thought of them. Wrote...
Married. Mary Peabody Fitzgerald, 30, daughter of the Right Rev. Malcolm Peabody, Episcopal Bishop of Central New York, granddaughter of the late Dr. Endicott Peabody, famed headmaster of Groton School; and Ronald Tree, fiftyish, M.P. and Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning in the Churchill Cabinet, rich cousin of rich Publisher Marshall Field III; both for the second time; in Huntington...