Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter Mary turn at once, and naturally, to her at the moment of the Annunciation? In Mary's moment of perplexity, amazement and exhilaration, she went with haste to her cousin Elisabeth and stayed with her for about three months! (Luke 1:39 and 56.) (THE REV.) FRANK LAWRENCE...
...preacher at the lectern was the Rev. William Howard Melish, around whose name has swirled the most extraordinary fracas seen in any U.S. church for a long time. In 1949 Long Island's Bishop James P. De Wolfe fired William Melish's father, John Howard Melish, as rector of Trinity, because he would not curb the left-wing activities of his son and assistant pastor. But the vestry and congregation accepted the younger Melish to stay on as acting pastor. By last week, however, a majority of the vestry (now mostly composed of new members) had changed...
...church locks to keep Melish out. Melish partisans had countered by tearing off one of the locks. At the 11 o'clock service, the second minister, who had been sent by Bishop De Wolfe, retreated when it became apparent that most of the congregation was following the Rev. Mr. Melish's conduct of the service. The reason that many parishioners back Melish is that they resent the bishop's actions as "High Church" interference...
...most prominent Greek Orthodox theologian in the country will join the Divinity School faculty next month, Dean Horton announced yesterday. The Rt. Rev. Georges Florovsky, former dean of St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary in New York, will assume his post as Lecturer on Eastern Church History...
...undergraduate liberal tendencies of Rev. William H. Melish '31 prefaced a feud with the Episcopal Church which flared into open revolt last Sunday. Melish openly defied his Bishop by conducting two services in The Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn after he had been officially ousted...