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...Hudson River, in a parish noted for the idiosyncrasy of its rector, there have lately been a number of baptisms. In each of these, at a certain point, the rector has taken the babies to be baptized, following the Prayer Book rubric: Then the minister shall take the child into his arms. ... At the end of the service, however, he has refused to return the baby to the parents...
...held another Christian Unity League service. Genial Bishop Frederick Foote Johnson (called "Shorty" because he is towering tall) and his Liberal Bishop Coadjutor William Scarlett were assisted in the sanctuary by Baptists and Methodists. Episcopalians have never since stopped talking about it, arguing it, quoting canon law and rubric. Last week the talk was for the first time public, at an annual Church Congress in Evanston. Ill.-an unofficial, argumentative gathering which lays down no laws but permits high, low and broad churchmen to air their views. Bishop Scarlett defended his intercommunion service, pointing out that Jesus Christ...
Before affixing his neat signature to this confession. Dr. Kelly added a rubric: Palmam qui meruit jerat. ("Let him bear the palm who has deserved...
...President & Mrs. Coolidge walked to the dais for the opening of the 49th triennial General Convention of the Church, they picked their way through a lane of approving smiles, nor was there handclapping, for the beating of palm upon palm, except as a signal to acolytes, is neither rubric nor good taste at a church ceremony. When it came time for the House of Deputies (lower legislative house of the convention) to elect a president, only three ballots were necessary to affirm the election of the Rev. Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, rector of Washington...
...office grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar a pain in the portion of his person immediately below the ears...