Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fact & Farce. Another speaker, the Rev. Owen M. Dudley, called Dean William Ralph Inge and the Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, "very ignorant men" because of their part in the movement against Anglo-Catholicism. The Church of England, said Mr. Dudley, is "fast becoming a farce. Numerically we [Anglo-Catholics] have just as much right to be the national church...
Lest the thoughtless imagine he were leaving the church for business, devout Dr. Wunder explained why he called his new occupation a "ministry". Said he: "The members of the firm are Christian men of high ideals and deep religious convictions. They believe, as I do, that they are feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick as literally as Christ commanded His followers to do. They consider themselves to be engaged in religious work...
...became closely associated with them in the work of financing the Baptist Temple. They discovered that he, aged 36, is a dynamo for work. The Baptist Temple project includes successfully operating a 14-story office building and a commercial restaurant, organizing a community service plan, adding 1,300 new church members. The Sunday congregations, whooped up by advertising, average 3,500, fill the auditorium half an hour before the service. The annual budget of the Temple amounts to $120,000. While Dr. Wunder made no mention of his new salary, congregation members were confident it would be considerably larger than...
...Elijah prophesied today, would it be News? The 14th Edition contains the words of a modern prophet. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. Writing on the Mormons, of which he is one, he says: "Here [in Jackson County, Mo.] a holy city is yet to be built by the Church, a new Jerusalem, into which will be gathered those of all nations...
...divorce case. The objections came publicly from the Very Reverend William Moore Ede, dean of Worcester. They harked back to quiet divorce proceedings brought four years ago by a Mrs. John Amadio against her husband-flutist. Soprano Austral is now the second Mrs. Amadio. That, declared Dean Ede, the Church of England could not condone, contract or no contract. Indignantly Husband Amadio protested. His pleasant, big-chested wife had done much for the Church in charity concerts, festivals, bazaars. Her hobbies of reading, needlework, cooking, hardly suggested a rakish character. As for himself he said: "I was married, but legally...