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Leaping Parson. Two years after William Knudsen arrived in the U. S., a son was born to a rural schoolman named Martin on a farm near Marion, Ill. Named Homer, the boy grew up lithe, springy, idealistic, became a star track man at Missouri's tiny William Jewell college, won the national hop, step & jump championship in 1924. Having begun preaching when he was 19, he was dubbed "The Leaping Parson." In 1931, brimming with zeal for applied Christianity, Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most...
...Government started something it is not going to finish?" angrily at Nanking last week boomed massive "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang who, born a peasant and still a peasant, delights to shame more refined Chinese officials when he can. There was last week no getting around the fact that the Nanking Government had sent out orders to begin executing on New Year's Day Chinese caught selling, buying or smoking opium, and that beginning New Year's Day nobody had been executed for that crime (TIME, Jan. 11). This, according to the Christian Marshal, was outrageous. With...
There no Nazi could forgive the German-born bridegroom for saying, "I feel Hollandish now, completely Hollandish." Hollanders were heard to grouse and grumble a bit in the streets last week at just one thing Hollandish. Thousands had contributed, to buy as a wedding present for their beloved Crown Princess, a romantic, seagoing Royal Yacht on which she and her Prince Consort could cruise to The Netherlands Indies on-the other side of the world. They were dashed indeed when Queen Wilhelmina. who has never visited her Empire, ruled against the seagoing yacht, although Juliana has never visited the Empire...
...Government that, as a mark of respect to Crown Princess Juliana, she and her bridegroom would be the only persons married in The Netherlands on their wedding day. The attention of Her Majesty's Government was then drawn to that buxom coincidence, the Dutch female who was born on the same day and at approximately the same moment as H. R. H. Juliana, the honest wench Petronella van der Meer...
...London's Eccleston Square. Possessor of an intellect vastly superior to any Aimee Semple McPherson (see below), Preacher Royden nevertheless employed a modicum of showmanship in uniforming her attendants and herself in berets, trim dark gowns. Plain, somewhat masculine in manner, far from robust since she was born with both hips dislocated, Dr. Royden worked hard putting her intensely personal messages across, retired completely exhausted after every sermon...