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...toastmaster will be President Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, chairman of the Board. A message will be read from Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, who with President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia and other pioneers in university education brought the Board into existence a quarter of a century...
Slogan. The new Presiding Bishop, John Gardner Murray of Maryland, was received by the House of Deputies with acclaim. He proposed a new slogan for the Church: "Pay, Pray and Perform." Pay off debts, pray to God, perform in accordance with prayer...
Last week, in New Orleans, when the Bishops assembled in secret, few thought that Bishop Murray would be chosen their leader, but all knew the story of his devotion to the Church National, Universal. So after 14 ballots, during which Bishop Brent of Western New York and Bishop Gailor of Tennessee unsuccessfully divided most of the votes between them, there came a sudden rush of enthusiasm for the onetime bookkeeper of Salem, Ala. He became unanimously "Primus"? an office in a small degree comparable to that of Archbishop of Canterbury. .Elected, he bowed his head in prayer...
...Bishop Murray will remove shortly to Manhattan, where he will function, ex officio, as President of the National Council. His salary was fixed at $15,000, although the Deputies wanted to make it $18,000, and he is allowed $5,000 for expenses...
Federal Council. The election of Bishop Murray was the more acclaimed because he has never sought reflected splendor. Neither has Bishop Brent, although for many years he has been conspicuously in the forefront of public and ecclesiastical affairs in the U. S., in Asia, in Europe. If he felt disappointment at failure to receive the honor which many thought should be his, it was trifling compared with the disappointment, which he probably expected and which he emphatically received on the following...