Word: rainsford
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Social Christianity. Under the leadership of tall, dominating Dr. William S. Rainsford, rector from 1883 to 1905, St. George's became the first great "institutional" church in the U.S. Rector Rainsford knew how to get hard work as well as hard cash from the rich among his parishioners,* startled ecclesiastical mossbacks by organizing a trade school, sewing school, boys' club, men's club and summer camps under church auspices. Young clergymen coveted appointments as his assistants to learn this new technique of urban church-with-community-center. St. George's set a popular pattern...
After Pioneer Rainsford's retirement, the church's liberal, socially conscious tradition was carried on under high-church-baiting Dr. Karl Reiland,* since 1936 under solemn pacifist Dr. Elmore McKee. Last June, after ten years' service, 50-year-old Dr. McKee resigned because of "fatigue." Next month, a new rector will take over: tall (6 ft. 3 in.), bespectacled Edward Miller, 31. Born in St. Louis, he was graduated from Harvard (where he was fencing captain), studied for a year at Cambridge, then at New York's General Theological Seminary before taking his present...
Colonel Gordon, who thinks cancellous bone may eventually outmode metal plates, says he did not originate the idea. It was suggested last year by Dr. Rainsford Mowlem of New Zealand, who uses it to repair noses...