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...night to guard their places of worship from white-robed or otherwise malevolently attired assailants. However, on Monday afternoon, when the perpetrators of the fires appeared in court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk of the state. Matthew Lee Cloyd, 21, Benjamin Moseley, 20 and Russell DeBusk, 20, all white, were drunk and out to use their car headlights to stun and then shoot deer. When that turned into an inebriated fiasco, said DeBusk, "We agreed to break into a church...
...Nevertheless, in Boston last week a survey was released which indicated that inner inadequacy is a prime characteristic of churchgoers-or at least of New England Protestant churchgoers. For five years, students of Dr. Harold Washington Ruopp, professor of preaching at Boston University School of Theology, asked churchfolk around Boston: What is the outstanding question that you face in your thinking and, living? Professor Ruopp's tabulation of nearly 5,000 replies was published last week in the Boston Transcript religious column of Dr. Albert Charles ("Dieff") Dieffenbach, who recommended it to preachers who wonder what they should preach...
...Northfield, sacred to the memory of Dwight Moody, U. S. churchfolk refresh their spirits every summer in a series of conferences which succeed each other week after week, fill the Northfield Hotel run by Ambert Moody (nephew). Last week's peace parade was the high point of the Northfield season. The 2,000 marchers took a peace pledge. Rev. James Myers, industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, declared: "Missionaries have ever been the shock-troops of religion. ... As the church now turns with missionary zeal, courage and sacrifice to the high adventure of the abolition...
...greatest alarm. Against them Editor Edmund B. Chaffee published an "Open Letter to the President" in his Presbyterian Tribune. The Christian Century editorialized vigorously. The Department of International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches came out with a forthright protest to the President signed by 200 churchfolk, including some of the ablest bishops, pastors, religious editors, missionary leaders and pedagogs in the land. Rev. Harry Frederick Wrard, Union Theological Seminary professor, declared in a sermon that during the maneuvers might occur the "incident" that would bring on the Japanese war which, said...
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