Word: babson
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Instead of Helen Keller, the convention elected as moderator Dr. Oscar Edward Maurer, pastor of the New Haven, Conn. Center Church and long a member of the denominational boards Mr. Babson has been attacking. Undiscouraged, Roger Babson demanded an increase in the salaries of 75% of the church's pastors ("to raise them to the level of bricklayers'"), called for a vote on his plan to give the 6,000 Congregational and Christian churches in the U. S. a delegate to the council. Thereupon sober churchmen resorted to a mediator. They succeeded in suppressing a sharp reply...
With this rabbit punch at his foes, white-goateed Statistician Roger Ward Babson last week rudely suggested that famed Helen Keller be elected to succeed him as moderator of the general council of the Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...
...odds with the church administration because he thinks it has introduced too much business into religion, Businessman Babson arrived at the convention with a plan to reduce the church officials' power. At the opening session Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, retiring general secretary, replied to Moderator Babson's charges, agreed that Congregationalist ministers' salaries (average: $1,663) are too low, but declared the remedy is more businesslike money-raising, added: "Our men are not whining much...
DEDHAM, MASS.--Roger W. Babson, National Moderator of the Congregational Church, in a searing attack on modern religion, tonight branded all denominations, with the exception of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches, as "country clubs." The noted statistician, who earlier in the day had Ied a revolt of several hundred church leaders and ministers from the state convention here, said the "country club" denominations are "slipping badly" and the "time has come for them to return to the old-fashioned principles upon which they were founded...
...them attend church regularly, although 76% are church members. Of Roman Catholic women, 85% are regular churchgoers. Of Protestant women, 54% actually go to church-a percentage which, even allowing for U. S. Protestant men who do not attend church, is somewhat higher than Statistician Roger Ward Babson's estimate of 30% for Protestant attendance (men & women). U. S. female churchgoing, high in the East and South, drops in the Midwest, sinks to 26% on the Pacific Coast. According to the survey, U. S. women believe in God (91%). Though most do not attend church, 75% believe that children...