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...support his wife and child. The C. L. I. D., whose president is Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism, is on record for the Spanish Leftists. Next month when the Episcopal Church holds its triennial General Convention in Cincinnati, the C. L. I. D. plans to hold a sideshow series of meetings, with speeches by such people as Socialist Norman Thomas (a Presbyterian minister), the C. I. O.'s Homer Martin (onetime Baptist preacher), Howard ("Buck") Kester of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union...
...triennial convention nine years ago the Protestant Episcopal Church appointed a Commission on Marriage & Divorce to whittle down its Canon 41, which stoutly enjoined Episcopal pastors from solemnizing the marriages of divorced persons. Under the chairmanship of Michigan's grey and liberal Bishop Herman Page, the commission consists of sixteen churchmen and laymen including Colorado's Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, Missouri's Bishop William Scarlett, longtime Director of the Russell Sage Foundation John Mark Glenn, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, and Justice Origen S. Seymour of the Connecticut Court of Common...
...thousand sweltering women from 36 countries gathered in Constitution Hall in Washington last week to participate in the 16th triennial world meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. World President Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, as a prelude to her reelection, told the meeting that drinking by women is one of the great "causes of maternal death," praised Germany's Hitler because he gave the beverage concession at last summer's Olympic Village to the Deutscher Frauenbund der Abstinenz (Nazi W. C. T. U.). is a total abstainer, supports restaurants which serve no beer...
Fifty years ago last week at Chicago, a triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church prayerfully considered and at length approved a four-point formula for Christian Unity. Adopted by a Pan-Anglican Lambeth Conference in 1900, the Lambeth Quadrilateral stands today, a noble idea like the League of Nations which may some day work. Its formulators invited all Christendom to accept: " 1) the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as revealed Word of God; 2) the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian Faith; 3) the two Sacraments -Baptism and the Supper...
...deliver the Society's triennial series of talks," as stated in TIME. He does not speak for the Society at all, hasn't for years. His talks in Holland will not be held on the Society's estate at Ommen. The Society does not own it and has no interest...