Word: synods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Synod House adjoining the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, went last week some three score of the 138 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They were called there by Presiding Bishop John Gardner Murray (Maryland) to elect two peers. Vacancies had occurred upon the resignations of Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts and Missionary Bishop Theodore P. Thurston of the District of Oklahoma. Before the House of Bishops convened, a third resignation unexpectedly arrived, from Missionary Bishop Nathaniel Seymour Thomas of the District of Wyoming, who said he wanted to "articulate the theological equipment of the students with modern...
Women of Germany who, since the War, have been like ants hungering for livelihood, last week tore down the prejudices of the German Evangelical Church against women preachers. The General Synod, at Berlin, decided to permit women to be ordained, but with restrictions. They may function only so long as they remain unmarried. They may lead religious services for children and teach Bible classes of girls; may perform work akin to that of U. S. social workers-welfare work in prisons, almshouses, pesthouses and refuges for the aged. They may not officiate at marriages, funerals, baptisms, deaths. Clergywomen...
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...