Word: synodical
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Hand on the bird That pivots over a spinning jet of air. Treading his tiny whirlpool-let my word Soften the iron synod of despair...
...distinctive head here. Reverend Professor Lazar Gherman of Manhattan is the Archimandrite. But he has been functioning under the general supervision of the Russian Orthodox Church through its Manhattan headquarters. (His home Church is in communion with Greek, Russian, Serbian and other Eastern Orthodox Churches.) Last week the Holy Synod in session in Roumania decided to create a bishopric for the U. S., with headquarters in Detroit...
...participation in the government and administration of the church. Their disciples consider one another equals. Their pastors are peers. Church government lies not in the hands of individuals but in representative courts - the session, the presbytery and the general assembly for Presbyterians; the consistory, the classis and the general synod for the Reformed - only a difference of terminology. The Reformed is a mite more conservative than the Presbyterian...
...attraction of the sins of Manhattan for ministers of the Gospel from the hinterland is periodically demonstrated, and never more clearly than last week when the Chairman of the Sabbath Crusade Committee of the Tennessee Synod of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, opened his mouth in the Bible House, Manhattan...
Last week the synod of the Old Catholic Church sat in Manhattan and to it Bishop Brown introduced an encyclical letter, as did Pope Pius XI to his Church some days before (TIME, Jan. 4). Bishop Brown's letter was adopted; it amazed people, for it stated...