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...functions like the Pope; for extreme cause he, too, may remove a bishop. The Protestant Episcopal Church lacks both Pope and King. Its ruler is a House of Bishops, a senate of sanctified aristocrats elected by priests and laymen. Only the House of Bishops may condemn an erring fellow. Methodists also elect their bishops. But a Methodist bishop's office is executive. He is a superintendent, has no more sanctity than a minister (see col. 2). Among the apostolic churches, however, a man's consecration as bishop ranks him closer than the priests to God and much closer...
...Federal Council half filled the radio job by appointing Dr. John William Langdale, 56, chairman of its radio commission. It is to this commission that Protestant ministers who want to talk over N. B. C.'s national radio hook-up must apply. Dr. Langdale is book editor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He lives in Brooklyn. The commission's paid executive secretary, who actually handles radio appointments, continues to be Frank C. Goodman, at N.B.C.'s Manhattan offices...
...afternoon last week there was a great dinging and donging in the belfry of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Rochester, N. H. Factory workers, puzzled by the sudden outburst, paused in the street on their way home to ask questions. Rev. Jonathan N. Armistead, all aglow with happy excitement, loudly explained: "It's to celebrate the Wickersham Commission report. We just heard about...
Married. David P. Cannon, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr., George Washington University law student and worker on the Board of Temperance & Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and Margaret Lee Fultz. clergyman's daughter; in Washington...
...complete and excellently devised demonstration of an ostrich policy. This is unjust to the ostrich, however, as it does not bury its head quite so deeply." Otherwise the birth controllers were placid. They reiterated an old boast that their movement has been endorsed by various sectional conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Congregational Churches of Connecticut, the Universalist "General Convention, the American Unitarian Association, the Lambeth Conference. During ten years of formal organization Birth Control has developed an American League, state leagues in Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; local groups...