Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Church union on a local scale seemed the only answer to Barrow's problem when he arrived in the newly built paper town in 1945. Marathon's population was nearly 80% Protestant but no single denomination was large enough to support itself. Anglican Barrow started holding services in the paper mill's cookhouse, in a vacant barn or any other sizable shelter. In two years Barrow and his Protestant congregation had built their own church...
While Holy Trinity Church is nominally Anglican and title to the building rests with the Church of England in Canada, Pastor Barrow has made its liturgy a blend of Protestant ritual. Anglican Holy Communion services are followed by interdenominational services. United Church communion rites are performed regularly. Sunday school classes are taught from literature published by various Protestant faiths. Holy Trinity's board is elected with such impartiality that its chairman, Dr. G. M. Bastedo, could not recall last week the denominations of its members. Said Dr. Bastedo: "It doesn't really matter. We are all just Protestants...
Pastor Barrow hopes that the Marathon experiment will have a broader effect than simply justifying the investment of time and money that went into the building of his parish. He travels regularly to both the Anglican and United Church synod meetings, stressing the Holy Trinity success as proof that the long-discussed union of the United Church* and the Church of England in Canada can be made to work. "God is neither Anglican, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran nor United Church," he says. "Union ... is possible as we have it here...
...parting amenities were those due an old man and a kindly neighbor. With the subject of their prayers gone beyond protest, a few Ayot neighbors, family servants and the daughter of a local publican gathered in Shaw's parlor for a brief service read by the local Anglican pastor, the Reverend R. J. Davies. "Mr. Shaw was not really an atheist," Pastor Davies said later, "I would call him rather an Irishman...
...Boston, the Rev. Bryan Green, canon of Birmingham Cathedral in England, was conducting a nine-day crusade that filled the 10,000-capacity Mechanics Hall and overflowed into two churches. Anglican Green (TIME, Dec. 13, 1948) was especially effective with young listeners: many of his 600-odd converts on a typical night were young people in tears...