Word: parish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Journeying northward last week was Father Thomas Griffin of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. His destination was the northernmost parish of the North Pole diocese, situated in Canada's vast north-west territory. In that diocese are at least half of the 14,000 Eskimos on the North American continent, care of whom the Catholic Church delegated to the Oblates in 1864. However not until 1911 did they commence their active missionary work. It took them six years to convert a single Eskimo. Then they got four families...
Vigorous Bishop Breynat oversees the North Pole diocese. He inspects his charge by airplane. Father Griffin plans to shorten the devious route from Texas to his parish by flying over as much of the northern territory as possible. When he arrives he will be confronted by difficult tasks. Hostile native sorcerers are slippery hummocks of the spirit. To surmount them his cross must be his alpenstock...
Aged 31, rector, St. Paul's Church, Syracuse, N.Y., an important and influential parish...
...chocolate cotton pickers from Riverside Plantation had come down to Vanceville to play the also-dark potato diggers of Sunny Side for the colored baseball championship of Bossier Parish...
...State Board of Education, Wyo., but had grieved when he saw his son spurn the classics for science; 2) an uncle and grandfather, both scholars, are also plant breeders, interested in science; 3) Winner Huston, unlike most of the candidates has traveled extensively, following his father from parish to parish, spending six years in Cheyenne, Wyo., two in Baltimore, four in San Antonio...