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Cables, telegrams, letters, telephone tinkles and callers poured into the home of Dr. Samuel Hybbinette of Stockholm last week. It was the Doctor's 50th birthday. The thousands congratulating him were chiefly medical colleagues and onetime patients, whose fondness and admiration were not occasioned by Dr. Hybbinette's superlative surgical skill and his magnetic personality alone. Nor had he performed some new miracle with his keen scalpel. But one and all praised him for a habit that he has, a talented habit uncommon among surgeons. Dr. Hybbinette has a rich tenor voice. He has won many a prize...
...archeologist of considerable practical ability, a tolerable singer and a vigorous champion of religious culture. His younger brother, the dramastist-poet Prince William, Duke of Sodermanland, is perhaps better known abroad (TIME, Oct. 19). But the activities of Crown Prince Gustaf, in connection with the World Church Conference at Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq), his archeological excavations on the site of ancient Asine, and his work as a member of the Swedish Olympic Committee, have attracted considerable quiet notice. His most widely bruited remark was allegedly made to Lady Louise of Mountbatten (formerly Princess of Battenburg) at the time...
...Bishop, an intellectual modernist, departs from the American liberals, whose inclination is to sidestep questions of faith and order, of sacrament and authority. Secondly, it is widely supposed that the non-Catholic churches have come, or are rapidly coming, to close cooperation. But according to Bishop Brent, the Stockholm conference revealed that the breach among the churches, even in practical affairs, is greater than he dreamed. For this reason he finds the Church singularly impotent: "The lost Christian ethic remains undiscovered...
...both these reasons, the Bishop reports that Stockholm was an historic event in Christianity, because it made a new and sincere beginning of the task of uniting Christ's scattered hosts. The beginning was a beginning in under-standing-the flower which bloomed at Stockholm...
Unofficial though it is, there could be no more authentic pronouncement upon the condition of the church universal than an analysis of the Stockholm conference* by the Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of western New York.† This he has in effect issued in a 50? book called Understanding...