Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zechariah Chafee, professor in the Harvard Law School, will preside at the dinner, which is scheduled for 6.30 o'clock. Following the dinner K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, will speak on the subject, "Does Evolution Justify Capital Punishment," and Father Spence Burton, former chaplain at San Quentin Prison, will discuss the experiences of "A Prison Chaplain in the Death House...
Many are the men of God who are famed and glad for their ministrations to men of War. Last week Col. Julian E. Yates of Washington, chief of U. S. Army chaplains, went to hear a Lenten sermon at Washington's First Congregational Church. Minister of that church is rugged, cheery Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, himself a Wartime chaplain, presidential pastor during the Coolidge administration. But Dr. Pierce was away; occupying his pulpit was Dr. Peter Ainslie of the Christian Temple, Baltimore...
...Chief Chaplain Yates sat in a pew directly under Dr. Ainslie, who preached on the subject: "If the Jews Killed Jesus...
Have the Christians Accepted Him?" Strongly Dr. Ainslie deplored War, deplored the fact that the Church should play any part in it, chose the circumstances of the World War to point his utterances. Suddenly Chief Chaplain Yates was astounded to hear Dr. Ainslie remark: "There is no more justification for being a chaplain in the Army or Navy than there is for being a chaplain in a speakeasy...
When the service was over, Chief Chaplain Yates sped to his office, composed an answer, a rebuke. But as he wrote his ire diminished. He did nothing with what he had written. "I got my sentiments off my chest," he later explained, "and upon more sober reflection did not deem it necessary to add my voice to that of Dr. Pierce other than orally...