Ecclesiastical Affairs

P:Billy Sunday, who collapsed at a revival in Memphis, went to the Mayo Brothers Hospital in Rochester, Minn. Said he, en route: "The Lord and I, we've been pullin' together now for 37 years, and He won't forsake me now."

P: William T. Manning, shepherd and cathedral-builder, announced the accumulation of $2,581,000, which is more than one-sixth of the $15,000,000 necessary to complete St. John's, Manhattan. Biggest givers were: $250,000 from the Stuyvesants (A. Van Home, Miss Catharine E.S., and Miss Anne W.); $100,000 or more from Edward F. Albee (theatres), Vincent Astor (real estate), Arthur Curtiss James* (railroads and banks), F. A. Juilliard (finance), Frank A. Munsey (groceries and newspapers), Dr. and Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice (explorers), J.P. Morgan.

P: Frederick C. Lawrence, sometime undergraduate at Harvard and Cambridge Universities and at Union Theological Seminary and at the Episcopal Theological School, became a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His father, Bishop William, and his brother, W. Appleton, officiated at the ordination.

P:The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church South, impeccably Fundamentalist and anti-Evolutionist, met at San Antonio. It was chiefly concerned with reviving the ancient doctrine of the scriptural subordination of woman to man, with the repeal of woman's right to sit on its executive boards, with repudiation of the Federal Council of Churches, and with investigation of the alleged liberality of its missionaries in the realms of faith.

P: Property bought by the Mormon Church from Mrs. John B. Henderson will be used to build a Mormon temple -- 16th Street and Columbia Road, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Henderson insisted only that the building be beautiful. Senator Smoot, an Apostle since 1900, is active in the project.

P: One Edwin Winterborne, pastor of the Faith Tabernacle at Lebanon, Pa. (TIME, May 19), was forcibly inoculated for diphtheria. Edwin had forbidden his flock to call physicians during an epidemic of the disease; this had resulted in quarantine of the church and of the homes of nine of the flock, by the local authorities. The sick families were then compelled to submit to medical treatment. One Mrs. Charles Roth, who had lost her husband and four children during the epidemic, would not give verbal consent to the inoculation, although she submitted peaceably.

* He is one of the stout Presbyterian laymen who are supporting the Liberals at the Grand Rapids Assembly.