Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Philadelphia nearly 53 years ago, Bishop-elect Robbins was a Presbyterian until his late 20's. Then he went to Princeton Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), found its Calvinism too narrow, looked for broader horizons. In 1904 he was ordained an Episcopal clergyman. He had parishes at Morristown and Englewood, N. J., went to the Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan in 1911. Six years later he was elected Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
Undismayed were National Guardsmen throughout the land last week when a six-foot Baptist clergyman eased his big frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...
...displayed in schoolrooms because of ''dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children." Bishop Jones further said that no man could worship at two altars, nationalist and Christian. Cried the Transcript to all patriots: "We are still old-fashioned enough to believe that the clergyman who advocates abandonment of the American flag and what it stands for has no place in American society, whatever his pretensions as a leader in his church. Neither do we believe that he represents his church, or that such doctrine . . . will not be repudiated...
...subsequent protests was made to the Vestry of St. Matthew's Church by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An open letter said: "If this statement has the sanction of the Vestry of St. Matthew's, it condemns the brand of Christianity, the clergyman, and the congregation from which it issues. . . . For them [Negro communicants] to be publicly and insultingly expelled for no other reason than their color, is not only contrary to the teachings and precepts of the founder of Christianity but is a gross violation of ordinary justice and common decency and courtesy...
Uncle Sham. Dr. Sunderland adds an appendix chapter roundly flaying, firmly negating Katherine Mayo's popular U. S. handbook of Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba...