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William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain, called the new program more comprehensive than those at other schools, explaining that "the Michigan and Harvard Programs, however excellent, are inadequate on three counts: 1) they involve very few of the total number of students interested, 2) they are costly and 3) they do not avail themselves of existing possibilities...
LAWRENCE D. GRAVES Congregational Christian Minister U.S. Army Chaplain (retired) Muncie...
...Damn the Sultan!" No one knows when City Temple began, but in 1640 Dissenter Thomas Goodwin, later chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, was holding regular services. It was not until 1873 that it began to attract its biggest audiences. To hear the "pulpit genius," Dr. Joseph Parker, actors, authors, artists and bohemians pressed into City Temple alongside primmer Victorians. Preacher Parker often rewarded them with a shocker; when, during the Turkish-Armenian hostilities, he thundered. "I say God damn the Sultan!'', the newspapers headlined: DR. PARKER LETS HIMSELF...
...Arthur Macmillan's fellow laymen agreed. "The whole subject of evil spirits wandering about this world is un-Christian and almost getting near to witchcraft," said a retired physician named Dr. Edward Cordeaux. Others felt that "possession" was a matter for psychiatrists. The Rev. Henry Cooper, chaplain to the Guild of St. Raphael, argued that the more successful exorcists are men who know something about psychiatry and work well with doctors. They resort to bell, book and candle only when psychiatrists have given...
...camp ideas yet devised in the U.S. Chosen from 700 applicants, they come from 75 colleges of all kinds and sizes. Nearly half are girls, and the roster includes 25 Southern white students, 35 U.S. Negroes, two U.S. Indians, two Chinese-Americans and 13 Yalemen led by the university chaplain. Many of the students had scholarships to pay their expenses; those who could paid $800, or about half the cost of the trip, which is financed by private donations and foundation grants...