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...great was the name of Dickens, however, that few churchmen took offense. "The time for the publication of The Life of Our Lord could not be more opportune," rejoiced General Secretary S. McCrea Cavert of the Federal Churches of Christ. "Many people," agreed Dean Luther Allan Weigle of the Yale Divinity School, "will read this because Charles Dickens wrote it and it will help to make many acquainted with the life of our Lord...
...flag. Because few churches hoisted pennants outdoors the question of propriety bothered no one until last week. Then the Navy Department was asked for an opinion. It shied away, saying that it could make no ruling about inland churches. While the Federal Council's Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert went on investigating, last Sunday Queens Village Baptist Church continued to put God above Country...
...Protestant gifts never amounted to more than 1% of the U.S. income. With the national income declining from 85 billions in 1929 to 40 billions in 1932, the church income dropped from $581,000,000 only to $378,000,000. Said the Federal Council's Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert: "The evidence certainly is that the American people are not ready to discard their churches...
...being spent for armaments than at any other period in human history, and that, too, at a time of acute financial depression when millions of men are on the verge of starvation. ... I am convinced that the Church must disentangle itself from the business of war."-Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches in America...
...this conference went many a famed church-unionist and several non-unionists. Among famed churchmen present were Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson. President of Princeton Theological Seminary; Yale's Divinity Dean Luther Allan Weigle; Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, editor-in-chief of the Christian Herald; Dr. William Adams Brown, Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, who recently married Col. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow; Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Outstanding among laymen were Swarthmore's Philosopher-Professor Jesse Herman Holmes and President Frank...