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...made him less mystical. He talked of supplanting "mass civil disobedience" with a program of "individual civil disobedience." Even his disciples were puzzled. They urged the Mahatma to make peace and petition Lord Willingdon to set free the thousands of Gandhite prisoners, some of whom have languished in Anglo-Indian jails for as much as two years. Seemingly the Mahatma felt his leadership challenged. Squatting down in the centre of the committee, he proceeded to mesmerize all present with a two-hour mystic plea that the All-India National Congress Party through its committee should once more abdicate and place...
...Albany Federal Judge Frank Cooper and the local Protestant Episcopal Laymen's Association stormed at Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry because he insists upon attending a solemn high mass at an Anglo-Catholic Congress in Philadelphia next October...
...Tracts and Newman's conversion stirred up resounding piety and dissension in the Church of England and in the collateral Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. High-Churchmen in England and Anglo-Catholics in the U. S. wanted symbolism, celibacy and other "Romish" practices in their worship. Opposed were the Low-Churchmen and the plain Episcopalians, who detested every smack of Rome...
...Albany Episcopalians protested against Presiding Bishop Perry "giving sorrow to the members of the Protestant Episcopal Church by his attendance at such [Anglo-Catholic] Congress...
...Harvard Yard, besides being a venerable area, a blessed couple of acres, owns that peculiar charm which belongs to things and institutions which have never known the labelling of a surveying committee, a place with its own ancient and particular name. Rough earthy Anglo-Saxon names, like the "Yard," "Rotten Row," Cape Cod," have an indigenous correctness which latinic titles ("Esplanade," "Boulevard" etc) can never claim, especially when transported to foreign soil...