Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest city of Marshall County, West Virginia, is Moundsville (pop. 12,000), on the Ohio River. One of the most important preachers of Moundsville is Dr. Donald M. Grant, of the First Presbyterian Church...
...Grant viewed Bishop McConnell with pious but vigorous alarm. In fact, he said, he would like "to set in motion an effort that will speedily rid the Council [Federal Council of Churches] of such a dangerous leader, or to insist upon our church absolutely withdrawing from the Council...
...these hopes were dashed when it was learned that Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist Church had been chosen (unanimously) as President of the Council for the next four years, as this action seems to make certain that the matter, instead of going from bad to better is going from bad to worse-if that be possible...
...Federal Council of Churches consists of representatives of 28 Protestant denominations. It has a constituency of about 20,000,000 members. Bishop McConnell's fame as a religious leader rests largely upon his battles for better labor conditions in Pittsburgh mills and mines. His thoughts, utterances run in liberal channels. Recently he posed the ticklish question: "Is not this tendency to deify Jesus more heathen than Christian?" Bishop McConnell seemed to think it was. Dr. Grant, shocked, responded with another question : "If that is Bishop McConnell's position, then the thing that concerns me as a Presbyterian minister...
...Elphege Daignault, the excommunicate, will repent. He will come back into the Church...