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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belt as Mencken calls it. Woman suffrage has been a contributor to this wave of resentment. Many preachers have been accused of going behind a man and influencing his wife to vote contrary to her husband's wishes. A few more elections like the last one and the church will almost cease to function in the South...
...last week's service the House, taken somewhat unaware, was reasonably full. Two speeches were delivered, one by jovial, wavy-haired Charles Aubrey Eaton, onetime Baptist pastor of John D. Rockefeller's Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland, now a New Jersey Representative; the other by Democratic Leader Finis James Garrett. The Marine Band played sacred music. The Imperial Male Quartet sang hymns. Chaplain Montgomery prayed at length. House Clerk Page read the roster of the dead: Vaile of Colorado, Madden of Illinois, Sweet of New York, Butler of Pennsylvania, Rathbone of Illinois, Frothingham of Massachusetts, Rubey of Missouri, Oldfield...
From its name one might guess that the Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church is an official Episcopal organization and a supporter of Prohibition. It is neither...
Last week, in The Churchman (Episcopal liberal weekly) the society denied, as it has before, any official affiliation with the Church. The Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., is, however, president ex officio, and the society claims to represent more than 1,500 of the Episcopal clergy. The society has always denied having an official character, notably in 1917 when it championed the Prohibition movement. Last week, however, as for some time past, the Society attacked Prohibition...
Died. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, 71, famed Congregational clergyman, and onetime pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church of Brooklyn, where he upheld the traditions of preachers Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott, after a month's illness; at Bronxville...