Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English ministers, in a group of ten exchange visitors traveling in the U.S. under the auspices of the National Council of Churches and the British Council of Churches. "I am wondering whether the church in America is not frightened by this boom in religion." said Canon Hartley A. Wareham. Vicar of Linthorpe. Middlesbrough. Yorkshire. "The fantastic interest in church building, church attendance and education is a strange, alarming phenomenon about which we must not be cynical. It is difficult for us people of the United Kingdom not to be cynical about it ... Each of us has much to learn...
...sermon are likely to be snatched up within a few hours of delivery. About one student in six is estimated to be a member of one of the denominational societies, and about 80 undergraduates are being confirmed at the university each year. Says the Rev. Roy Stuart Lee, vicar of St. Mary the Virgin: "The best minds are turning most seriously to religion...
Every bishop and vicar knew what he meant. There is much latent sentiment in secular Britain against the state-linked church (it showed recently during the Princess Margaret-Captain Townsend controversy). If Parliament turned down the churchmen's divorce clause, then the bishops and vicars would have to choose either to defy Parliament or to back down, thus inviting the disestablishmentarians to go to work. Disestablishment would mean loss of state protection, possibly some lands, and the privilege of crowning England's monarchs...
...Beans. There have been only isolated protests. A Cambridgeshire vicar, the Rev. Eric Arthur Marsh, helped start a Farmers and Smallholders Association, demanded bitterly: "Why should not the inefficient factory owner be dispossessed? The inefficient butcher, baker, candlestick maker? The answer is easy. The farmer has sacrificed his liberty and freedom for the price of a bag of beans...
Pygmalion. Carolina's benefactor was an Englishman named Robert Wilbraham Fitz Aucher. A vicar's son, Fitz Aucher was a man of great charm and erratic fortune. Three years ago he struck it rich when he sold a rust-proofing process to a Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent...