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...leaders voted to continue the same program for two years more. But henceforth Toyohiko Kagawa will no longer lead the Kingdom of God. In his plans the social and economic duties of the churches loomed large. He would build a backfire against Communism, which like many another churchman he believes is Christianity's most dangerous enemy. But Kagawa discovered that economics did not interest his colleagues so much as multitudinous conversions which would look well upon paper. Kagawa announced he would go it alone...
Many a U. S. churchman would be happy if he could take back some of the things he said during the War to End War. Along with many a college professor he gave his services to the Nation, particularly to the Committee on Public Information headed by George Creel. Ministers were the first to demand, as suitable for churches, such material as a lantern-slide lecture on "Ruined Churches in France." Ministers were also glad to give their pulpits to "Four-Minute Men," to preach mimeographed War sermons sent out by Propagandist Creel, and sometimes, like the late Dr. Percy...
...pioneer among secular newspapers was the Boston Transcript when it instituted a religious department - "The Churchman Afield"-33 years ago. The "Churchman" was Herbert Hervey Fletcher, who had gone into journalism in 1879, became manager of the New England Associated Press in 1887, associate managing editor of the Transcript in 1897. New England came to know "Churchman" Fletcher well. Apocryphal perhaps but typical is the story of the provincial lady who wrote in to say her 25-year-old son was spending a week in Boston, would the Churchman be good enough to keep...
...Eminence William Henry Cardinal O'Connell (whose awesome face appeared on TIME'S cover. Dec. 24, 1928) is perhaps the ablest U. S. Churchman of recent times. He is also crusty...
...Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Second Wrangler (honors man in mathematics), fellow, lecturer, junior dean and tutor. He became an inspirational, evangelical preacher, was made canon of Westminster. In 1924 Ramsay MacDonald had him appointed Bishop of Birmingham. Anglo-Catholics protested, have continued to protest. As a churchman, Bishop Barnes is as low as a sole. During one church quarrel he exclaimed that he would "not be driven to Tennessee or to Rome." To him they both represent "degenerate religious thought," one a "refusal to admit the truth of man's evolution from lower forms of life...