Word: wands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical of the alert, enlightened, approachable churchmen with whom William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, is filling vacant bishoprics in the Church of England is Dr. John William Charles Wand, recently appointed Bishop of Bath and Wells.* Last week Dr. Wand and his wife were in the U.S. on their way to England from Australia, where the prelate has been Archbishop of Brisbane...
...Bishop Wand, who is sturdy, friendly and High-Church, has not been in his native England since he left for Australia nine years ago. He brings back to Britain a knowledge and admiration for his Church's work in Australia and New Guinea. Wand's work down under took him not only to the big urban churches of the coastal cities but to isolated missions in the bush. He is especially enthusiastic about the Church's work in prewar New Guinea...
...years that Anglicans have worked in New Guinea, he says, they have changed many cannibals into peaceful natives who like to drive motorcars, tune in on radios. With their own hands New Guinea natives built a cathedral at Dogura. Wand consecrated it four years ago. He has many a tale to tell about the native loathing of the Japanese and how New Guineans have risked their skins to save Allied soldiers from the enemy. Wand claims that this loyalty is due to the missionaries' work. Since the Jap came, native respect for them has risen even more, because...
...Australia Wand found U.S. influence stronger than British. He dressed like a U.S. Episcopal bishop except on formal occasions, when he donned gaiters and apron. Australians liked him for his warm friendliness and for his excellent preaching. His Oxford accent is quite intelligible. He has no prim ecclesiastical mannerisms. His sermons are pithy applications of the Christian faith to workaday life. Each Sunday evening thousands of Australians listened to him on the radio; other thousands read his weekly articles in the Brisbane Courier-Mail...
...sure-fire scene describes a latrine orderly's dream, in which a fairy, using a plumber's plunger as a wand, summons Uncle Tom, Simon Legree and others from the privy. Sample gag: says a sniffing sergeant to a private, "Have you taken a bath lately?" Says the private, "Why, is one missing...