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...Vermont Episcopalians met to choose their sixth bishop, successor to Rt. Rev. Samuel Babcock Booth who died last June. In four ballots they eliminated such of the 42 Vermonters as had been nominated, went outside the State for the third successive time, elected Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilson Sutton. 54, vicar of Trinity Chapel, Manhattan. Vicar Sutton learned of his election with surprise while vacationing in Mexico...
...have been elevated, has seven satellite chapels, snug berths which are insulated against penury as well as against inordinate theo logical liberalism. Grey-haired, good-looking Dr. Sutton became curate of Trinity Chapel 22 years ago after having been headmaster of St. Paul's School in Baltimore. Made vicar, he was nearly elected suffragan bishop of New York in 1921. Dr. Sutton is a bachelor. Inside his small parish he devoted himself to friendly pastoral visiting. Outside it he demonstrated interest in causes like the Society for Promoting Religion & Learn ing in the State of New York...
...wife triumphantly produced another child, only to be tied by Katherine, whose faith was rewarded by twins. But then long-lost George, black sheep of the family, came back from India with a large and dusky family, and it looked as if the prize were his. How the Vicar got into the running, and what a preposterous old man Major Gander's father turned out to have been, let readers discover...
...Vicar Apostolic of the Northern Solomon Islanders, Bishop Thomas Wade, arrived in San Francisco last week with an explanation why cannibals are cannibals. Said...
...which was the feast of St. Joseph, foster father of Christ. By nightfall 50,000 pilgrims had crowded into the crypt. They had heard pontifical high mass sung by Montreal's Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Emmanuel Deschamps, later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont. They crossed themselves before a great marble statue of St. Joseph, gazed in awe at the multitude of discarded crutches, braces, trusses which filled the alcoves and niches of the crypt. And of the throng of pilgrims many a halt or ailing one passed on through the crypt...