Word: adna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 1,000 preachers, putting up in Ocean Grove's colony of 200 tents, or staying in its lacklustre boarding houses and private homes, attended an annual conference on evangelism led by Bishop Adna Wright Leonard of Pittsburgh. This week the 68th annual Camp meeting is to open in the auditorium. Last year its series of daily meetings attracted 62,430 people, and Ocean Grove expects attendance to be even better this year. So far, morning and evening crowds at Sunday auditorium services have averaged 4,000. According to Joseph A. Thoma, 39-Year-old city manager...
...Thornes in their house of thatch heard the words of scripture and a prayer in their own language; and also a sermon by Bishop Adna Leonard who concluded that the U. S. in the midst of all its troubles needed, even more than new laws, ''the . . . spiritual note which will lift up Jesus Christ as the burning centre of the Church's faith to you devoted missionaries who are carrying the gospel of the Son of God to the Christless millions of the earth...
Methodist Bishop Adna Wright Leonard. LL.D. Honorary President Ezra Squier Tipple of Drew University. . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D...
Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Channon Bendix, 33, recently divorced wife of Vincent Bendix (motor accessories); and Lieut. William Adna Blake, 35, U. S. N.; in Manhattan...