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...Southern Ohio last week sprang fresh hope for the Episcopal budget. There a group of laymen were crying "Hold the Line" and organizing to raise money for their church in a highly businesslike manner. Their object was not only to raise $500,000 and present it to the triennial General Convention of their Church next October, but to do something that the Church has never before succeeded in doing-develop a strong organization among its half a million adult males...
...except an ex-officio member of the class committee) shall be eligible for election to the class committee. Of the six members to be elected, the three having the largest number of votes shall serve until after the sexennial reunion and the three remaining shall serve until after the triennial reunion...
Immediately after the triennial reunion three members shall be elected to the class committee to fill the vacancies in the elective members. The retiring members shall serve as a committee to nominate six candidates for election to the three vacancies. A list of these six candidates shall be mailed to all members of the class, with a notification of a reasonable time for additional nominations. Additional nominations may be made within such time by petition addressed to the secretary and signed by at least three per cent. of the then living members of the class. From all the candidates nominated...
...Protestant Episcopal Church. Their activities?personal evangelism, weekly meetings in the parish house?are led by Rev. Ray Foote Purdy, onetime Princeton Y. M. C. A. secretary, and Calvary's Rev. Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., who gave a demonstration of "primitive Christian practice" for the bishops of the 50th-triennial Episcopal convention in Denver last autumn (TIME, Sept...
Rudyard Kipling's God of Things as They are might have beamed kindly approval last week as the Protestant Episcopal Church wound up its 50th triennial General Convention in Denver, Col. (TIME, Sept. 28, Oct. 5). Of the controversial subjects discussed, almost all had been settled by compromise between Liberal and Conservative groups. Exception : present-day politics and economics, which the Bishops denounced vigorously in a pastoral letter addressed to all the Church. It asked that the U. S. reduce its armaments, confer and cooperate with other nations, especially through "existing international agencies" for world peace. Said the letter...