Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is a certain grade of fools in every church. The Catholic Church has fewer of them than any other church...
Immediately, "this body," the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, which, with official delegations from 28 denominations, was holding annual session in Cleveland, became an uproar. Said the Rev. Dr. George Summey of New Orleans: "Now let's be careful lest we touch matters of a political nature and commit ourselves to something that will soil the garments of the Bride of Christ. . . . There is a wide difference of opinion. Now, let's go carefully." Colored Baptist Dr. W. H. Jernagin pleaded in its favor on the grounds that it would give the Negro church confidence...
Cleveland, Ohio, was proposed as the site of a 1930 interdenominational church congress to develop a spiritual and evan- gelical program that would "recapture the imagination" of U. S. youth. Said the Rev. Dr. William Robert King, executive secretary of the Home Missions Council: "We, the churches of the United States, must do something big and adventurous to appeal to the spirit of youth." Six committees will spend the next two years working out a program to accomplish this...
Discernible in the activities of the National Council and other interdenominational organizations is the definite trend toward Protestant church unity. Notable in this respect was the session, held in Cleveland a few days before the meeting of the Federal Council, of the National Church Comity Council. Finding few points of dissension, the 500 delegates from 30 denominations agreed upon a definition of competitive denominationalism in small communities, a competition which leads to poor sermons, impoverished churches, shabby rivalries between small congregations. They agreed that communities of 1,000 persons, if provided with more than one Protestant edifice, were "overchurched...
...Reverend Raymond Calkins, Minister of the First Congregational Church in Cambridge, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow...