Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Manhattan, the Presbytery of New York appointed five "divorce counsellors."* One of these must be consulted by all Presbyterian ministers before they may marry divorcees. The Presbyterian Church recognizes only infidelity and desertion as divorce grounds...
...prints of lower Manhattan Island, the outstanding feature is a slim spire rising high above the shops, residences and counting houses around it-the spire of Trinity Church. Nowadays the only distant prospect of Trinity spire is up that chasm of counting houses from which residences long ago departed, Wall Street...
...centre of New York City and near it stand the oldest landmarks. St. Paul's Chapel (Manhattan's oldest) where George Washington and New York's first Governor, George Clinton, worshipped, is five blocks from Wall Street. St. Peter's, Manhattan's oldest Catholic church, rises in the shadow of the Woolworth Building. In 1766, in John Street, the first U. S. Methodist-Episcopal society opened its first chapel. Daily services are still held in John Street...
...Joseph Sproule preached and preached; he preached all morning and far into the afternoon; he ate his lunch in the pulpit. Thus did he prevent his appointed successor, the Rev. C. M. Marvine, who sat waiting in the congregation, from taking his post in the Malvern Methodist Church. That night, however, Pastor Marvine seized the pulpit, and church doors were locked against Pastor Sproule. Repulsed by guards with whom he tussled, Pastor Sproule held service in a nearby house. "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," he cried. Late reports indicated that...
Archbishop of Canterbury, made known that he will visit the Holy Land next month; also Athens, to see Mgr. Chrysostom Papadopoulos, Metropolitan of the Greek Church. Dr. Lang will travel on the Corsair, 304 ft. yacht of J. Pierpont Morgan...