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...Kenilworth, Ill., Chicago suburb, Episcopalians cocked quizzical eyes as they approached their Church of the Holy Comforter one Sunday lately. The front doorway was unaccountably bricked up. A vestryman stood nearby, motioning worshippers around to a side entrance. During the service Rev. Leland Hobart Danforth explained that the Church needed $1,500. For every $5 contributed, a brick would be removed. Last week the Church of the Holy Comforter had $1,220, the doorway was almost open...
...Among them: that he called Vestryman Charles A. Brown "perjurer, liar, moral pervert, trickster;" that he attempted to extort $10,000 from Bishop Mackay-Smith under threat of publishing some of the Bishop's letters to him; that he committed assault and battery on one Anna Phillips; that he charged Parishioner Edward Matlack with being a thief...
Your reference to George Washington in TIME, Oct. 20, exhibits an ignorance of the subject, or a trustful credulity in the inspiration of the professional debunkers, either of which is unworthy of TIME. Washington was a life-long church member and for 20 years a vestryman. He lacked confirmation, as did practically all members of the Church of England in the American colonies, since no English Bishop ever came to them; and he was not disposed late in life to seek a rite without which he had always maintained full church membership. Attendance upon church-services was his established...
...Take nothing for granted. No matter how respectable a man may seem, be he clergyman or vestryman or Y. M. C. A. secretary, he may still stand in need of your moral surgery...
Many a staid vestryman answers: "Business is business and religion is religion, and never the twain shall meet." But venturesome churchmen have long abode in the doctrine that business is life and so is religion. The latter, at least on the surface, have had things much their own way, which has been chiefly a way of counsel and opinion and advice by resolution. They have held up to their staid vestrymen brothers the case of "Golden Rule" Nash, as a glittering example of what may be done...