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...fruitful corner of the Lord's vineyard is rich old Trinity Parish, which embraces eight Episcopal churches in Manhattan. Trinity Church gave the Diocese of New York its present Bishop, Rt. Rev. William Thomas Manning. Trinity's Chapel of the Intercession provided Bishop Manning's cathedral with its present Dean Milo Hudson Gates. Last week another Trinity man, Rev. Dr. Wallace John Gardner, vicar of the Chapel, was offered advancement. The Diocese of New Jersey (34,567 communicants) elected him Bishop Coadjutor...
Jehovah's Witnesses call themselves "remnants" ("unworthy strivers after the kingdom of the Lord"), "Jonadabs" ("workers in the Lord's vineyard"), "pioneers" (those who have dropped all other work except that of Jehovah), and "publishers" (those who do Jehovah's work along with their own). Last Sunday, remnants, Jonadabs, pioneers and publishers, to say nothing of the thousands of plain Bible Students, listened bug-eyed in Washington Auditorium to a speech by Judge Rutherford broadcast and rebroadcast to the ends of the earth by radio, wire and wireless at a cost claimed to be $200,000. They...
...last survivor of the race of heath hens died in 1932 on Martha's Vineyard (TIME, April 11, 1932). Cause: overshooting, grass fires. The Eskimo curlew was extinct by 1925. Cause: overshooting during migration. The passenger pigeon disappeared just after the turn of the Century. Cause: market hunters killing nesting birds. The petrel and flicker of Guadalupe Island vanished about 1906. Cause: cats, goats. The Carolina and Louisiana parakeets were never seen after 1904. Cause: demand for caged birds. Great auks have been extinct since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included...
...Verkehrs Arbeit Gemeinschaft ("Mission Traffic Aid Society"). Founded by a onetime army aviator named Rev. Paul Schulte who now belongs to the Oblate Order of Mary Immaculate, the Society has provided seven planes, eight motorboats, 58 automobiles to carry missionaries to the remotest corners of the Lord's vineyard. The SANCTUS PETRUS will be sent to South Africa where it will fly among mission posts...
...Authors present respectable credentials. Frank Schoonmaker has roamed the vineyards of Europe many years, "collecting information and pleasant experiences," for the past year has been wine correspondent for the New Yorker. Tom Marvel, Connecticut vineyard-owner, is now on the Paris staff of the New York Herald, has served on French wine juries, written home about wine...