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...Houston, the Missouri Synod Lutherans closed their triennial convention with a resolution condemning marriages with Roman Catholics as "diametrically opposed to the eternal truths of God." Such marriages, said the resolution, involve a sinful promise or oath, violate the Christian conscience, and condemn "unborn children to the soul-destroying religion of the antichrist...
...Boston, delegates to the 57th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church found the early days of their two-week session dominated by a delicate problem: Should women be allowed to sit as delegates in the church's House of Deputies? A commission assigned to study the matter said yes. Among other things, the commission noted that the Church of England has admitted women as lay delegates for many years. But the motion ran into trouble...
Delegates to the triennial synod of the Church of England in Canada, meeting in London, Ont. last week, suggested that the Ten Commandments, as recited in the Church of England's Communion service, could stand some improvement. They recommended that the Biblical text generally called the "eleventh commandment" be added. It reads: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." *Explained the Rev. R. F. Palm er, one of the motion's sponsors: "We feel this change is necessary to give the commandments...
...Episcopal Church's triennial convention at Kansas City in 1940, Farmer Cochel saw part of the trouble. Most of the clergy neither knew nor cared about rural life. Cochel and his wife Caroline talked it over. Then he went to the Episcopal National Council in New York and offered them his own farm, Roanridge, as a special training ground for the ministry...
...Triennial punch party, given for the present seniors by their "senior sister" class of 1947, started the major events moving with the re-meeting of the two classes. Other classes held luncheons and dinners at various homes and restaurants throughout Cambridge...