Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over many a U. S. radio, tuned in on Canada's station CFRB two Sundays ago, sounded the brusque, heavy voice of Rev. Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, 61-year-old Toronto Baptist. With reforming Fundamentalist fervor he was preaching to 2,500 people who crammed old Jarvis Street Baptist Church, and to 5,000 more in overflow meetings. Dr. Shields lashed out at the "liquor traffic," flayed the Premier of Ontario, kinetic young Mitchell F. Hepburn, who took office last July when beer and wine became legal after 18 years of Prohibition. Cried Dr. Shields: "We need to rally...
Perplexed radio listeners heard a smooth voice: "Station CFRB. You have been listening to the regular Sunday evening service of Jarvis Street Baptist Church, Toronto...
Elected. Dr. Will H. Houghton, pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church: to be president of Chicago's Moody Bible Institute. During his Manhattan pastorate Dr. Houghton completed the $2,000,000 Salisbury Hotel which houses Calvary Church, managed to keep it 97% occupied since last autumn...
...meantime great changes take place at the ford. Two Christian missions, two hospitals, a bank, a hotel, a market square are established. Many blacks are attracted by Baptist Minister Jones's sensational revivals. More turn to the Catholic mission where Father Domenique cultivates his gentle philosophy and his rose garden. Sister Marte, annoyed with Sister Therese, runs away, makes good her escape by sending dour old Ferryman Lardi, asleep on his raft, to death in the rapids below, then takes refuge with the Joneses until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from...
...Columnist Heywood Broun of Raymond Mathewson Hood who at 40 was penniless and obscure and who, when he died of arthritis last week at 53, was as famed as any architect in the U. S. A childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking for cats...