Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peasants emerged from church, they espied four young women, all short-skirted, hiking through the village. Soon these hussies were set upon, pinioned, subjected to fierce applications of snow, and finally chased out of Buchau...
What Conductor Williamson wanted was better church music. He wanted to recreate an interest in the art of hymnology. Music, he said, was once the child of the church, where Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and the rest had their training. It should be brought back and made worshipful, the professional tang taken out. It should be devotion itself and delivered always with the greatest artistry...
John Williamson, quiet son of a clergy man, took his first job in Dayton as teacher of public speech and church music in the Central Reformed Theological Seminary. Soon he was engaged in choral work and for two years he directed simultaneously the music of seven churches. Then in 1920 he founded the Dayton West minster Choir, first made up of factory men and women, but later, because workers could not give the time to satisfy the Williamson ideal, of people who, like himself, wished to devote their lives to church and choral music. Today the choir of the Westminster...
...senior students have gone out as members of the touring choir, proven themselves as choristers. But back in Dayton they have learned more than the art of group singing. The Williamson course includes ear-training, conducting, hymnology, English, harmony, musical theory, history of music, Bible and church music literature. Five school days a week begin at 7:30 A. M. In addition there is field work, the organizing and conducting of graded choirs; then a tour (thus the personnel of the first choir changes each year); then church positions to be administered in the Williamson way. Already more than...
When the Rev. Benjamin C. Dahnes of Mountain Home, Pa., married divorced 5?-&-10? Tycoon Sebastian Spering Kresge to Mrs. Clara K. Swaine last December, he violated no civil law. However, in the Methodist Episcopal Church is a law which says that no minister may marry a person who has been the "guilty party'' in a divorce suit. In his last divorce suit Mr. Kresge was judged a "guilty party" and did not contest the judgment. Therefore, the Rev. Benjamin Dahnes did violate a law of his Church...