Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agreeing that church union is their only salvation, the 300 delegates thereupon voted to replace Dr. Holt with another lover of unity, Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones, 60, of Detroit. This affable churchman, who will run the Federal Council for the next two years, is a Disciple of Christ. Born in Texas, he filled pastorates in rural Kentucky, Cleveland and Bloomington, Ill. before going to Detroit's Central Christian Church in 1920. That church Dr. Jones found in a run-down district, merged it with North Woodward Christian Church, raised money in 1928 for a fine new building...
...moderator of the Con-gregational-Christian Church, declared that church boards now might well put their money in stocks rather than bonds. And in view of frequent churchly criticisms of Business, the Federal Council should appoint a committee to tell the churches what companies are "run according to Jesus Christ." Moderator Babson diagnosed Protestantism's basic trouble as its declining birth rate, thus perplexing listeners who recalled that a year and a half ago he was for birth control as a cure for poverty...
...date, popular treatise" written from a conservative standpoint, Mrs. Shepard being a stout Fundamentalist. Called Except Ye Repent, Dr. Ironside's broadside against sin and irreligion states its thesis thus : "To repent is to change one's attitude toward self, toward sin, toward God, toward Christ." Reason why Harry Ironside forgot the American Tract Society's prize contest was that last summer he spent, in the Holy Land, his first vacation in 45 years...
...public service tomorrow evening will be held by the Reverend Palfrey Perkins, Minister of King's Chapel, Boston. The service this afternoon will be conducted by the Reverend C. Leslie Glenn, Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge; while tomorrow's service will be conducted by the Reverend Leslie T. Pennington, Minister of the Christ Church in Cambridge, Unitarian...
...Reverend C. Leslie Glenn, Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, will conduct the service on Monday evening...