Word: converting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These facts were set forth last week in the Protestant press. For one thing, Mr. Stearns had once possessed a vigorous Protestant Episcopal faith; had, in fact, graduated from the General Theological Seminary, Manhattan, became rector of Christ Church, Sheffield, Mass. A "convert to Romanism,"** he had then gone to a Jesuit college...
Arthur has arranged with the Lampoon to take over the room which Jimmie's Lunch has occupied for the past few years downstairs in the Lampoon Building. Arthur will also have the Lampoon showroom permanently at his disposal, as the Lampoon has decided to convert Benny Hyte's tailor shop into a larger and better showroom...
...That rites or doctrines which distinguish Baptists from other evangelicals are not to be de rigueur. (Of these, the most picturesque is the Baptist belief that the body of a convert must be totally immersed in water-either running water such as the River Jordan or a pool constructed in the church. Most other churches from Catholic to Calvinist are content with symbolical sprinkling of water on the forehead...
...provide a much-needed kind of education. But the claim of Dr. Potter that Antioch furnishes", an education which is religion," an education which will ultimately do away with the churches as it does with the elder universities this must be put down as the commendable exuberance of a convert rather than a well-seasoned conclusion...
...newest convert to the cause is always the most enthusiastic, which is probably the reason why the Reverend F. C. Potter, who has left a New York church to become the Secretary of the Friends of Antioch in America, views the Ohio college through such rose-tinted glasses. Not content with seeing in Antioch a notable experiment in education, useful in certain definite branches of education, the new secretary wants to establish the Antioch idea as "a basis of American educational institutions", broad enough to include both religion and practical life...