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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rev. Ronald D. Maitland has been appointed chaplain for Episcopalian students at Harvard and Radcliffe by the Trustees of the Bishop Rhinelander Foundation for College Work, the Rev. Gardiner M. Day, Rector of Christ Church in the Square, announced yesterday...
Having served as acting chaplain this fall, the Rev. Mr. Maitland will succeed the Rev. Frederic B. Kellogg, chaplain from 1940 until his death last summer. The Rt. Rev. Frederic C. Lawrence gave official approval to the appointment last week...
Paved with Good Intentions? In Woodcliff Lake, N.J., the mayor and council approved a proposal initiated by the Rev. James I. Opsal, changed the name of the street beside the site of his new Lutheran church from Dam Road to Church Road...
Humbug or Healer? To his fine gallery of free men-Gully Jimson in The Horse's Mouth, Chester Nimmo in Prisoner of Grace-Cary has added the Rev. Walter Preedy. In this hollow-chested, egotistical evangelist, the sense of God is like a torment. His specialty is faith healing. To him and to his followers in the London suburb of Pant's Road, it is blasphemy to call a doctor, for that is an admission that God is incapable of miracles. Preedy seems to have worked quite a few miracles himself, and his fame is spreading. This...
Ranged against him is the Rev. Mr. Syson of nearby St. Enoch's. Syson is a World War II flying hero whose Anglican orthodoxy is correct and painless. Most of his parishioners agree with him that Preedy is a humbug, but Preedy's miracles, performed in public, have convinced a few. Syson sets out to stop Preedy, and the matter comes to court. Not only does Syson fail, but he begins to re-examine his own faith. Like Gary himself, he does not deny God, but finds surer manifestations of him in the ordinary give and take...