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President Hoover last week had a chance to compare himself with Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both those great men were mentioned in an open letter to the White House from long-nosed William Randolph Hearst, who said he wanted President Hoover to make ''some reassuring utterance" at this time of "sudden and unjustifiable collapse of (stock) values." He said...
Never to be caught out on a point of church law, Bishop Manning consulted 77-year-old lawyer George Zabriskie, for 25 years Chancellor of the Diocese. Then he wrote Dr. Reiland a letter forbidding the service. The letter referred to the book of common prayer, last court of appeal in Episcopalian disputes, which says: "... No man shall be ... suffered to execute any of the said functions [of the ministry] . . . except ... he hath had Episcopal consecration or ordination." Said the bishop's letter: "I must earnestly beg you, and I do hereby officially admonish you, not to carry...
...These Carnal Things." Bishop Manning's letter, printed in Manhattan newspapers, elicited a reply from Dr. Coffin, who declared: "The ministry of the church in which I serve has as unbroken a tradition, reaching back to the earliest age, as any ministry in Christendom-if one cares to boast of these carnal things.† I would not willingly expose this ministry to such disparagement as appears to be put upon it by Bishop Manning...
Bishop Flayed. Other replies were made to Bishop Manning. Said Dr. Ainslie: "Your policy, my dear bishop, is that of force and the letter; the league's policy is that of fellowship in the bonds of love." Thirteen Episcopal members of the league (two of them clergymen of Bishop Manning's diocese and subject to his ecclesiastical authority) signed a round-robin letter, protesting against the bishop's "usurpation of authority under the guise of interpreting the canon law," attacking his indulgence of high-church canon-law-breakers...
Prime Minister SirAbdul Muhsin shot and killed himself in the presence of his family at Bagdad last week. He left a sealed letter telling why, which his son refused for several days to open...