Word: abyssinians
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...street corners of Manhattan's lusty black Harlem last week buzzed with rumors, reports, allegations, accusations- all concerning the Abyssinian Baptist Church which, with 12,094 members, is the largest Protestant church in the world...
Banding together 126 years ago after a schism in the Baptist Church, the Abyssinian Baptists so named their sect because they liked the sound. They worshipped first in downtown Worth Street, moved northward with the city's color line. When the church was in midtown 26 years ago there arrived in its pulpit a tall, rawboned, Yale-trained Negro named A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell. After years of planning for a model church in Harlem, Pastor Powell began raising money in 1920, got 2,000 people to promise to give their church a tenth of their weekly earnings...
...accommodate 12,000 worshippers the Abyssinian Baptist Church holds three or four services every Sunday, runs two Sunday schools with 1,000 members each. Also it maintains a Community House with gymnasium and roof garden, Home Economics and Health Education departments, a weekday Church School for children, the nation's largest Daily Vacation Bible School, an employment agency, a Music School, a Dramatic School and 53 clubs and auxiliaries. Furthermore the Church supports a missionary in Africa, a summer camp, a chair at Virginia Union University and an Old Folks Home. And lastly there is the Friendly Society which...
...Rolphing" at San Jose; a Nebraska Negro crisply incinerated; Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre; William Warnecke's famed shot of Mayor Gaynor wounded; public executions in the Chinese manner (strangulation), the French manner (guillotine), the Mexican manner (shooting), the Persian manner (interment), the Abyssinian manner (dismemberment), the Japanese manner (decapitation), the British manner (gallows), the U. S. manner (lynching). Amid the welter of dead and dying, more gentle readers will find relief in such shots as those of a cat carrying her kitten across a traffic-jammed city street; the Catholic Shrine at Lourdes...
...then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME, Oct. 9). Three hundred pounds of majesty beneath her State umbrella, symbol of Abyssinian sovereignty, she lent glamour to the consecration beside the River Jordan of a new Coptic Church and Convent- Abyssinians being Coptic Christians. "The Empress is not interested in public affairs," fibbed Her Majesty's suave Grand Chamberlain. "She is interested only in her home and children." Especially confidential letters...