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Acolyte & Rector. Shelton Bishop's father became rector of St. Philip's in 1886, two years before Shelton was born, and as a boy he always wanted to follow in his father's steps. "I've never wanted to be anything but a priest," he says. "I've known that ever since I've known anything. At seven I began as an acolyte, a server at the altar, and I've been there ever since." After Columbia College and General Theological Seminary, he served churches in Chicago and Pittsburgh, then went back...
...into the Digest's office. When Ralph Henderson, a jungle-born son of missionaries, dropped in from nearby White Plains to see what the little magazine was like, the Wallaces hired him as business manager, soon made him an editor. They later hired Harold Lynch, an assistant Episcopal rector, to handle the money. The Digest soon outgrew the pony shed, and spread all over Pleasantville. The mail got so heavy that the town had to have a bigger post office. By 1929 the seven-year-old Digest had 216,190 subscribers and was grossing more than...
...members of the congregation who jammed the Sunday service at Atlanta's All Saints' Episcopal Church this week, the news came as a blow. In six years, they had come to have a warm affection for their 44-year-old rector, and now, he announced, he was about to leave them. Next June the Rev. Matthew Madison Warren will be heading north to train for an important job-the rectorship of St. Paul's School for boys in Concord...
Matthew Warren will not officially take over at St. Paul's until 1954, when Rector Henry C. Kittredge retires. But for the next two years he wants to study, first at Columbia and then in Concord, where he will learn his job at first hand. As rector of hockey-playing, uppercrusty Episcopal St. Paul's, he will become headmaster of one of the nation's top prep schools, and both he and his trustees want him to have plenty of time to get ready...
...Theodore Ferris, rector of Trinity Church (Episcopal), Boston, to the annual convention of the Massachusetts Council of Churches...