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An ordinary bishop's cope (bell-shaped cape of stiffened fabric) costs about $100; a fancy, jeweled one at least $5,000. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had his cope packed and shipped to Philadelphia in a case big enough for a piano; also his mitre of gold...
Not to miss anything, Dr. Cummins went to Philadelphia too last week. Among themselves the Anglo-Catholics chuckled: "The Archbishop of Poughkeepsie is here, with his Vicar General." Low-churchmen told one another that the Anglo-Catholics had four detectives on Dr. Cummins' trail. When Dr. Cummins returned to...
Mr. Carter's generosity as a contributing Democrat is only equalled by his enthusiasm for the cause and, perhaps, by his ambition to hold office. He takes his politics with the same gusto that he plays bridge (he is an expert) and patronizes sport (he goes to all big...
There might have ended the Gates Bead & String Movement but for a doughty defender of things Protestant, The Chronicle of Poughkeepsie. N. Y. Last week The Chronicle rasped: "It occurs to us that a person who is so little interested in what he has to say to God that he...
During the boom times from 1927 to 1929, the people of the U.S. spent more & more money on amusing themselves, less & less on the things of God. After 1929, like the Devil who a monk would be, the people turned to the churches in increasing numbers. Last week the Federal...