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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REV.) JOHN E. KELLY Director National Catholic Welfare Conference Washington...
...Christ. The merger has been 17 years in the making. Some Congregationalists, e.g., the Cadman Memorial Church in Brooklyn, were so chary of losing their precious local autonomy in the merger with the E. & R. presbytery system that they sued to prevent the union, but lost. Says the Rev. Dr. James E. Wagner, president of the Evangelical and Reformed Church: "In marriage or in merger, where two become one, the very generosities required from both become channels of grace; and they discover that as each must decrease for their union to increase, they both grow in spirit...
...result: Onward, Christian Soldiers, which was to become one of the great hymns of all time (George Bernard Shaw even suggested that the early Christians anticipated it on their way to face the lions). The curate who wrote the famous words* in such a hurry was the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, an extraordinary squarson-one of the last of that strange amalgam of squire and parson bred by the 19th century Church of England. Now published in England is Baring-Gould's biography, Onward Christian Soldiers, by Anglican Clergyman William Purcell (no kin to 17th century Composer Henry Purcell...
...When the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould died, the hymn they sang over his grave was one he wrote for children that may well outlast his Christian Soldiers...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Alfred Walter Frank Blunt, 77, outspoken Bishop of Bradford (1931-55), whose mild-seeming remarks, in December 1936, that King Edward VIII (now the Duke of Windsor) should give "more positive signs" of knowing his duty toward religion sparked the already charged atmosphere of political crisis over the Wally Simpson romance, hastened the King's decision to abdicate; after long illness; at his home near York, England...