Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Boynton Merrill, D. D., Minister of the Second Congregational Church, West Newton, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Dyke issued a smashing reply to Dr. Walker: "May a humble Presbyterian, who has himself held the honorable office of Moderator in that church be permitted to ask politely by what right or authority Dr. Walker assumes this 'Temporal Dominion' in the United States? ... I have not the pleasure of knowing Mr. Volstead personally, but I am unwilling to believe that he is wiser or better than the Lord Jesus Christ, who not only used wine but . . . made...
...denomination to all members of his communion. It is therefore signifcant as the possible beginning of a formal Dry crusade led by unanimous Elder Statesmen of U. S. Protestantism. Not carelessly to be dismissed are the following spurts, which though lacking the universal imprimatur of the highest church officials, may be taken as indicative of how a Protestant army is being mustered...
Lutherans. Less spectacular, not as good copy as Mrs. Willebrandt's politocsin, but able to knock the Democratic campaign among Lutherans to Smithereens is the National Lutheran Editors' Association, whose media reach two million readers. Apropos of the campaign the editors voted to tell their readers that the Catholic Church requires of its members allegiance to a "foreign sovereign." (TIME, Sept...
Baptists. Strictly interpreted, the statement of the "officially appointed agencies on temperance and law enforcement of the Northern Baptist Convention" was routine, coming from temperance and enforcement workers of the church. It asked all good Baptists to vote against Smith, for Hoover (TIME, Sept. 24). But no such statement has routine effect in a presidential campaign; such statements are read with avidity, especially by the 1,250,000 persons who are represented in the convention...