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Died. Rt. Rev. Richard Henry Nelson, 71, retired bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N. Y.; in Albany.
Church & Land. Spain is a Roman Catholic country. Critics of the Inquisition are apt to forget that it was supremely successful in its primary object: the wiping out of heresy, Protestantism. There are a few Protestant churches in Spain and liberty of worship is permitted all sects. But 99% of the people owe spiritual allegiance to Rome. Royal Spain was the only country that still paid state tribute to the Roman Catholic Church: between 5000,000 and 60,000,000 gold pesetas a year (about $12,000,000). The Church owns property of incalculable value, priests exert tremendous influence...
Biggest gain: the Baptists, with 74,706 new members. Others: Lutherans, 56,180; Protestant Episcopal Church, 16,532; Assemblies of God, 15,660. The Roman Catholic Church published its Official Catholic Directory for 1931, listed its increase as 13,391, its total membership as 20,901,593 (comprising entire families...
Had the U. S. Government declared war last week, Rev. Peter Pastor, average U. S. Protestant clergyman, would pretty well have denounced it and refused to participate. He might, however, have become entangled in it if it were a defensive war; he might have served as an Army chaplain.
These are conclusions which may be drawn from questionnaire-answers of 19372 clergymen of 13 arbitrarily selected Protestant sects, tabulation of which was completed last week in Manhattan.* Specifically they stated that among this interested 20% of the more than 100,000 Protestant pastors in the land. 62% would have...