Word: rev
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Norman Church of St. Michael's, at Oldham, in Hampshire. England, a congregation of 14 countryfolk prayed last Sunday evening for the soul of Arthur Neville Chamberlain. The village vicar, the Rev. H. R. P. Tringham, took as the text of his sermon, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Said the vicar in his sermon: "No one labored more hard, or so spared himself rest, to obtain for you and me and for all fellow men the blessings of peace. Although it seemed a failure, it was a grand failure...
...last week it took a step to get itself within three years the next thing to an archbishop. Hitherto U. S. Episcopalians have merely chosen a Presiding Bishop, expected him simultaneously to run his own diocese and head the church at large. The present Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia, has a nationwide job but ecclesiastical authority only in Virginia. Most often he is in Manhattan, where he must get leave from Bishop William Thomas Manning to officiate in the chapel of the Church Missions House...
...first time in history voted financial assistance to the mother Church of England. Sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Rev. Noel Baring Hudson asked aid for Britain's war-crippled missions, called World War II "a hell-sent opportunity for more effective Christian work in all nations." A well-chosen emissary was slight, vigorous Bishop Hudson, secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, which nurtured Anglicanism in this country all through the colonial period. In part payment for that spiritual debt, General Convention promptly upped an appropriation for help to British missions from...
...stood an unprecedented group for an unprecedented ceremony: proud young Mrs. Robert Joseph Coar, wife of the Capitol's radio-room chief, fat and pouting four-month-old Robert Jr. in her arms. There, while Alabama's Representative Frank W. Boykin and friends looked on, Grandfather the Rev. Arthur H. Coar of Pembroke, Mass, baptized the child. Whisked out just before Congress convened, Mrs. Coar explained: "We dedicated him to God and his country...
...under the easygoing gavel of Bishop Tucker. (He asked his fellow prelates not to smoke during regular sessions: "I am not a fanatic against smoking but it does seem to me not altogether dignified.") The 500 clerical and lay delegates of the House of Deputies, under their president the Rev. ZeBarney Thorne Phillips of Washington (chaplain of the U. S. Senate), were more noisy, more informal...