Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship-building corporations that they made fools of themselves in sponsoring any such activities. When business men can so frankly admit their mistakes, instead of attempting to flaunt public good will, it is quite evident that there is a basis for self-regulation in business, which will relieve the Church and the Law of some of its most difficult problems. Another example of this same trend in business is the divesting of the interests of the International Paper and Power Company from the ownership of such newspapers as the Boston Herald...
Newsgatherers were soon asking Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island what he would do about Mr. Blackshear. Bishop Stires was pained, but he explained that the Episcopal Church leaves the individual parish practically autonomous. He declined to express any opinion except this: "Personally I have the greatest affection and a warm paternal feeling for our colored brethren...
Amid a rising storm of comment, Rector Blackshear stuck to his announcement, explained he had done it as a matter of "church policy" and as a "friend to the Negro race." Reasons he gave were: "I do not wish to take support from the two churches for colored people in the neighborhood. Furthermore, in these congregations Negroes can develop their power of leadership, whereas in white congregations they are bound to be subdued...
...five Negro members of Mr. Blackshear's congregation, only one ap peared in church the following Sunday. But nine new Negro faces were there. Six detectives eyed them suspiciously while Dr. Blackshear preached that "hate is the cancer of the soul." After the service the Negroes lingered in and around the church for a half-hour, were congratulated by several white worshippers...
Married. Edward Lee Cannon of Washington, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; to Miss Elizabeth Roberts of New Bern, N. C.; at New Bern...