Word: sectarianism
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...days when Henry Street was fashionable. Miss Wald founded clubs, classes in arts & crafts, English, citizenship. Long before "recreation centres" were known she put swings in the back yard and invited the street children in. When nursing of the poor was confined to sloppy free dispensaries and sectarian organizations, she founded a visiting nurse service, encouraging self-respecting people to pay for it when they could. Today Henry Street has a staff of 274, with 21 centres, a theatre, play school, music school, summer camps. Miss Wald has raised some $500,000 a year for the work. Because...
...Sectarianism is a lasso to trip up and hobble high church and low church Episcopalians. In 1929 Bishop William Thomas Manning stoutly refused to permit a Christian Unity League service in St. George's Church, Manhattan, because Presbyterian Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin was to have helped officiate. Bishop Manning and other strict Episcopalians hold tightly to Apostolic Succession, refusing to accept sacraments administered by other sectarians. Year ago in St. Louis Cathedral was 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...
...institutions in the United States giving some kind of teaching training, found that only 55 percent of the graduates of these colleges had secured jobs up to late this fall. Of these institutions, those which were denominational could find work for only 32 percent of their men, while non-sectarian Normal Schools were able to achieve 63 percent success. We have reports from 19 graduate educational schools indicating that 27 percent of the men, and 35 percent of the women who hold Master's degree are still unemployed. And of those who have received their Doctor's degree 29 percent...
...assertion that "no Protestants are admitted to Xavier University" is entirely wrong: the Institution is non-sectarian and no preference is shown to persons having any particular religious affiliations. Students are welcomed without regard to their religious beliefs...
...Missionaries who are to go out in the future ought to leave all their sectarian baggage behind and go out to work for a unified Christianity and a universal Church . . . toward a religion focused upon the vital issues of life for the individual and for the social environment in which the individual lives...