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...venerable prelates who boldly assert that they are not Protestants, although they refuse to recognize that the Pope is anything more than a pompous sort of Bishop; who quietly deny that they are Roman Catholics, although they use in their worship all the ancient magnificence of phrase, splendors of scarlet and black and gold, the aspiring incense, the candles, gongs and musical invocations of the Mother of Christ that are the Church's heritage from Rome. They are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, yet they called their meeting "the first Anglo-Catholic Congress to be held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In New Haven | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...thurifers in scarlet cassocks led the priests out of the sacristy of Christ Church and around to the big main door. A shrewd wind was blowing, touched with smoke from many autumn bonfires, and the fragrance of the incense from the swinging censers mingled in the air with the smell of burning leaves, and blew back over the moving column of priests, over the officers of the council, over the richly vested phalanx of Bishops who brought up the rear. The thurifers entered the Church. There was a rustle as the multitude stood up. Then candles were lit, hymn books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In New Haven | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

Gordon's Olympia--"The Scarlet Saint" with Mary Astor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...route the Prince changed from naval togs into a full Guard uniform, clapped a great black busby on his head, and allowed his scarlet tunic to be adorned with the blue ribbon of the Garter and almost obscured beneath a layer of the stars and decorations which he favors most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Son's Return | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

Down a long aisle of oaks to two great stands garlanded with purple and white, six choirs in vestments marched singing "Onward Christian Soldiers," and after the chorister, came 120 bishops robed in scarlet and gold, and purple and black and white. And one of the bishops, Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee, rose and read a sermon by another bishop, Theodore Dubose Bratton of Mississippi-a defense of the faith, a plea for the maintenance of the creed of the apostles. Thus at Audubon Park, New Orleans, was opened the 48th Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At New Orleans | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

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