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...vanquish and overcome all his enemies, and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." Later in the service the President's rector read a resolution of thanks to the King, signed by Senior Warden Roosevelt and the other vestrymen...
...Souls' Protestant Episcopal Church, at 114th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, was once all white. The southward spread of Harlem has turned it Negro by 300 souls to 50. Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon the rector, a lank, thin-lipped onetime curate of Trinity Church named Rev. Rollin Dodd. The vestry ordered Rector Dodd to cease encouraging the Negroes. When he refused the vestry asked him to resign, stopped his salary. When this failed they had the church closed, "for repairs...
Bishop Manning refused to comment. But three weeks ago the Body & Soul Clinic was ousted. The ten vestrymen met thrice, finally voted 8-to-2. Dr. Guthrie was understood to agree with them that the clinic was not an essential feature of divine worship. He had lately collaborated in clinic affairs only to the extent of giving occasional religious talks which most of the patients could not understand...
Partly through the efforts of St. Mark's vestrymen, Bishop Manning agreed to resume episcopal visitations next March. He wrote Dr. Guthrie that the abandonment of dances was hardly "willing compliance with any official and canonical requests." hoped that there would be no further "disturbed relations." Dr. Guthrie addressed a formal reply to "The Bishop's Palace," assured his bishop "a most cordial welcome...
These are the lads who will bloom into vestrymen and deacons. It is safe to say that most of them come from religious families. However that may be, in the long life of a historic institution there will be periods of religious reawakening and enthusiasm as well as of skepticism and indifference. And if it is beautiful, the Georgian chapel will be sufficiently justified. In view of the rooted Cambridge inclination to multanimity, we may say that Appleton is to be succeeded by another dissenting chapel. At least the architecture will be conformist. New York Times