Word: protestantitis
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The Triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America, having assembled at New Orleans, having worked one week (TIME, Oct. 19) and another week (TIME, Oct. 23), last week worked again and then adjourned. The chief developments:
Name. A motion to strike out the word "Protestant" before the name of the Episcopal Church on the title page of the Book of Prayer was, after much debate, laid on the table.
Prayer Book Reform. Numerous steps were taken in the process of Prayer Book reform. The "39 Articles of Faith," adopted by the Church in 1562 to distinguish it from other Protestant Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, were dropped. "Obey" and "with all my worldly goods I thee endow" were...
Not 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 Episcopal Church decided by a vote of 50-50 that it would continue to be the only important Protestant body unattached to the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. (A two-thirds vote was required to authorize uniting with the Federal Council.) This defeat of the famed...