Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chef was the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Manhattan pulpiteer, who characterized Governor Smith, last fortnight, as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would...
...January Joe Sleet wrote to Nellie Wallace: "Dear I am so proud and happy to know that you are a Baptist too. What do you know, I am one of the youngest deacons in our Church? I don't think there is any harm for a deacon to learn to love some one and I do hope you will allow that some one to be you." Nellie Wallace replied that there was a spark of love aglow in her heart...
...Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, whom he succeeds, Dr. Lang is a Scotchman; also he is 64, the author of a novel and a play, the seventh son of a seventh son, a brilliant though sometimes over-impassioned orator, and suspected of being the leader of that portion of the Church of England which most nearly approaches the Church of Rome. It was this last qualification in the present Archbishop of York which caused members of the League of Loyal Churchmen and the Protestant Alliance to protest last week against his appointment...
...picnic. After the explosion, said Albert La Frenière, Father Dubuc stood up in the stern of the boat and, while his clothes blazed brightly, lifted his crucifix and granted absolution to the five who were with him. Having recited the ritual of his church, he said to his guests, "There is nothing else to do. We must jump into the water." Later, when the body of Father Dubuc was found, it was discovered that the first flash of the explosion had certainly burned his eyes to blindness...
...cabinet . . . call out the army and navy, yes sir, and I'd close the dance halls and sinks of iniquity . . . jail Nicholas Murray Butler . . . build a brand new Federal Penitentiary. . . ." He achieved the height of his fame by encouraging conflagrations of emotional Pentacostalism instigated in his church by Girl Evangelist Uldine Utley. During this fervent ferment his son, Warren Badenock Straton, had his soul saved and received the gift of tongues...