Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first: Did Sebastian Spering Kresge, multi-millionaire proprietor of 5 & 10 cent stores, famed philanthropist and supporter of the Anti-Saloon League, devout Methodist Episcopalian churchman, commit a breach of conduct with Miss Gladys Ardelle Fish, with whom he arranged a rendezvous at the door of a fashionable Manhattan Church, and with whom detectives later discovered him to be consorting in a nearby apartment? The answer to this question, determined last week by the judicial decision upon Mrs. Kresge's uncontested suit for divorce, was yes. The second question, raised by the answer to the first, was as follows...
...Forge, founded the Valley Forge Historical Society and became its president. In 1911 he left his large Pennsylvania parish to organize one for his new Chapel. Dr. Burk worked hard for 17 years. A few weeks ago he announced that ground for the $10,000,000 National Washington Memorial Church will be broken on Feb. 22; if the work moves forward as it should, the Church will be finished in 1932, on the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth...
During the last year, more than 32% of U. S. Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches failed to secure a single convert "by profession of faith." These figures, amply documented, were presented to the Men's Church League last week in Manhattan. If they hold true for other denominations, 60,000 out of the total 200,000 U. S. Protestant churches failed to gain a single convert during 1927. Of the remainder, many gained only one or two. Much perturbed, the League asked itself: "What is the matter with the Churches...
...answers were various and somewhat unsatisfactory. J. Campbell White, General Secretary of the League, pointed out that church members had reached a point in working for foreign missions beyond which they should not go until they had done more efficient missionary work in their own communities. Said an Episcopal official: "What's the matter? Spiritual inertia and laziness." Missionary C. H. Fenn, home on furlough, spoke in metaphor, saying that the church was infected with "fatty degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied...
...fare on the railroads. 10. 'They are so favored by the kindly attention of wealthy and leading parishioners that their children enter the highest social life.' 11. They are often able to save money, especially when, 'through the kindness of financial leaders who are on their church boards,' they are let in on the ground floor on good investments. 12. The pension fund (Episcopal) will soon insure a comfortable income in old age. 13. 'The greatest joy of the ministry, however, has nothing to do with its financial compensations; it is the fact that...