Word: rev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, the Rev. Thomas...
...Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, Bishop of West Missouri, pointed out to the 66th annual convention of his diocese in Carthage that for Christianity's first thousand years or so, the making of a saint was a purely local matter, left in the hands of the bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, bishops lost this right in 1634, a century after the Reformation.* It would be wise and welcome, thought Bishop Welles, to revive this practice, and he suggested a commission to study the "heroic sanctity" of two Missouri candidates for canonization...
...Rev. Samuel Seabury (1729-96) was the first bishop of the Episcopal Church...
...Church decided that the Sunday-school curriculum in too many parishes was little better than a pious device for providing some peace and quiet around the house on Sunday morning. After the problem was turned over to the church's Department of Christian Education, its current director, the Rev. David R. Hunter, launched a program of meticulous pretesting. Hundreds of weekend "Parish-Life Conferences" were held to prepare laymen for the new program, and mobile teams in trucks and station wagons toured the country to review study materials with pastors...
...quiet on Kansas City's Benton Boulevard when a car pulled up short before one of the trim houses. Out stepped the driver and made his way to a sign in the front yard of No. 3714. Watching him from the window of his darkened house was the Rev. Earl T. Sturgess of Southeast Presbyterian Church. During the week he has watched many other motorists stop to examine his sign. It looks like a For Sale sign, like those in front of many houses in the neighborhood, but instead it reads...