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...your issue of Oct. 5, you printed tha reply of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler to Congressman William D. Upshaw's challenge to debate with him the Prohibition question. To say that Dr. Butler's reply is flippant is to speak mildly. Dr. Butler should set a good example to the young. That is not an effective way to teach. They are not in need of examples of flippancy, rudeness and insult. Dr. Butler could have ignored the challenge, but why publicly insult Mr. Upshaw? He says the Congressman's nickname is Pshaw and hence...
...only a new man but also a new office was silhouetted upon the consciousness of the U. S. public last week. The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church elected the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, seventh Bishop of Maryland, to be the first elected Presiding Bishop of the Church. His election was approved by the House of Clerical and, Lay Deputies, which together with the House of 132 Bishops, constitutes the Church's Government, in session for the past fortnight at New Orleans (TIME...
...Bishop Murray, now eligible to the courtesy title of "Most Reverend," was born into a Methodist family of Maryland 68 years ago, and early developed a penchant for the Christian ministry. But before his education had been completed, circumstances threw him into money-making and set him down on a bookkeeper's stool in the Osage Coal and Mining Co., Selma, Ala. He rose, prospered. In 1892 he was a banker, a broker, a potential payer of income surtaxes. Having compounded with the market place, he was two years later ordained priest of the Episcopal Church and sent as missionary...
...Michael and All Angels' has a record of bishopmaking, and in 1909, the Rev. John G. Murray was elevated to the Bishop-Coad-jutorship of Maryland, becoming Bishop...
...Diocese of Maryland stirred with the dream of a $10,000,000 Cathedral. Six years ago, all was ready to begin, when suddenly the Bishop abandoned his dream, insisting that his diocese should first make good its quota for the missionary work of the Church. Again, in 1923, Bishop Murray yielded local aspirations to world sympathy, and produced from his diocese a supplementary fund of $180,000 for Japanese relief...