Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Prediction of Schism in Episcopal Church (May 17 1920)

From the New York Times in 1920. I guess some things never change or his prediction was just 88 years early. You can download the pdf of the article at the link

DR. GRANT ASSAILS EPISCOPAL BISHOPS; Ascension Rector Foretells Split and Free Parishes Headed by Independent Men.

Preaching yesterday morning on "Will the Episcopal Church Split in Two?" the Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street, declared that in America today the Bishops of the Church were "reaching for more authority," ...

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A07E3D9123EE13ABC4F52DFB366838B639EDE

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