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...would promote a suit against Bishop David before the Archbishop of York, if someone would supply legal evidence of the Bishop's misdeeds. Exclaimed Lord Hugh: "If a Unitarian may preach under a Bishop's authority, who can reasonably complain about departures from the text of the prayerbook? We shall hardly be able to resist the polemics of the Roman Catholics when they tell us our church is a sect born of schism collapsing in anarchy...
...Manhattan the Empire State Building had its official baptism-by-suicide when Frederick Eckert, 33, with a German prayerbook and two religious medals in his pocket jumped from the tower (103rd floor), landed on the 87th floor setback. (In 193, before the building was done, a discharged workman leaped down an elevator shaft from the 102nd floor, landed on the 80th...
...proposed liberalization of divorce and marriage laws was already plaguing the Church (TIME, May 4, Sept. 14). Birth Control was once more raising its ugly head. The new "American Missal" (mass-book to be used with the prayerbook) was regarded by many as much too High-Church. On these questions the Catholic and Protestant wings of the Church were lined up, more sharply demarcated than they had been in 50 years. Also, the reelection of Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island as presiding bishop, regarded not long ago as a fait accompli, was suddenly threatened by a faction...
...with the then President Emilio Fortes Gil whereby the law was conveniently relaxed. Since then the State has ceased to fret the Church, the Church the State. Meanwhile U. S. Protestant denominations, notably Methodists and Presbyterians, had been rushing into the religiously roiled country, have been vigorously evangelizing with prayerbook and purse. There is now a Methodist Church of Mexico...
Meanwhile there were the amenities of all conventions: such as the discussion of the Master prayerbook, which will be printed at an estimated expense of $100,000 (to be borne by John Pierpont Morgan as had his father before him), and turned over to the Rev. Dr. Lucien Moore Robinson, of Philadelphia, custodian of the Master book...