Word: badenock
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Manhattan newspapers, like summer-silly urchins, threw Pastor John Roach Straton of Calvary Baptist Church and his son Warren Badenock Straton, 19, into the lake of metropolitan publicity last week. Their excuse for the "hazing" was Son Warren Badenock's recent epileptiform "baptism by fire of the Holy Spirit" and Father John Roach's quarrel with five of his deacons a fortnight ago (TIME, July 4). The newspapers were "following up" these "stories." It was incumbent upon the Stratons to swim or sink...
...they began paddling into public attention. Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, eldest of the sons and now pastor of the New Berean Baptist Church in Philadelphia, had his father's help in getting ordained in spite of Baptist opposition (TIME, Aug. 2). Last week, "followed up" by Manhattan newspapers, Warren Badenock Straton also had his father to imitate...
Pastor Straton's bed was covered with newspapers, disarrayed. Warren Badenock Straton sat at the foot of the bed reading the newspapers...
...illustration, a composite, falsified photograph of the type which Bernarr Macfadden's hireling's paste together, showed Warren Badenock kneeling in a cathedral-like room. His hands were clasped unctuously, and on his face was an arch and radiant expression. Above him, with right hand upraised, stood his father, austere, sanctimonious...
...McPherson and protégée of Calvary Bapist's Pastor John Roach Straton, had brought this abnormality into the congregation last January. Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits. Warren Badenock Straton, 19, third son of the pastor (the sons are Rev. Hillyer Hawthorne, John Charles, Warren Badenock, George Douglas) had had his "soul saved" in this fashion. The Monday night Bible class had sought "saving" to such an extent that the deacons had ordered class sessions discontinued...