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Monastic orders for men & women have long existed in the Anglo-Catholic wings of the Anglican and Episcopal churches, but not in other Protestant sects. One Susan Miles wrote from Texas last July to The Christian Century: "Why don't we have a Protestant sisterhood? I know dozens of fine, intelligent women who would be glad to embrace the cloistered, yet useful life. And while all this energy is going to waste, we are having to close our schools and hospitals. Are we still so anti-Catholic that we cannot countenance so practical a plan? I'd like...
...weekly, by "The Pilgrim"-nom de plume for any staff member. Telling of tramping through Rhode Island, "The Pilgrim" said he came upon a convent, knocked at its door in hope of getting a cup of tea. The convent Portress gave him some. He inquired the name of the sisterhood...
...final vows completed, Katharine Drexel founded with the Pope's approval the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and became their Superior General. She took over the old Drexel house at Torresdale, Pa., later built a motherhouse at Cornwells Heights near Philadelphia. The Sisterhood's motto: "God's greatest work on earth is man. Man's master art is the leading of man to God." There are now 320 sisters. 41 foundations in 18 States. But Indians were not their only concern. Mother Katharine Drexel looked out from her cloister upon what she called "America...
...cause. This autumn the organization faces its first big test, for which the Roslyn meeting, last week, was a prelude. There are 435 Representatives, 33 Senators, one President and one Vice President to be campaigned for or against. It takes money to campaign, as Mrs. Sabin's Wet sisterhood well knows. National headquarters of W. O. N. P. R. seldom has more than a three-month supply of it on hand, but the group is happily supplied with rich husbands. If a Democratic Wet majority is returned to Congress and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House...
...Elsewhere on the Wet front, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (600,000 members), oldest Wet unit, which has the support of Pierre du Pont, was biding its time, waiting for the Hoover acceptance speech before plumping for either or neither party. Book. More thoughtfully statistical than the Sabin sisterhood, the Crusaders are currently circulating a book called The New Crusade, presented "to the thinking peoples of the United States that they may intelligently understand the results of compulsory Prohibition." At the University of Chicago last month Cleveland Oilman Fred G. Clark, 38, the Crusaders' founder and commander...