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...lamps lighted the church's storm-cast gloom. Standing below the pulpit, prayer book in hand. Marion Moultrie began solemnly to intone: "We are gathered here this afternoon . . ." Crash! The church was glutted with sound and light. Marion Moultrie swayed, fell dead in the arms of a deacon. . . The blackamoors screamed, then set up such a wailing as they had never before achieved. Police came, took away the body with its lightning-ripped collar and shoes. The storm abated. The wailing continued, drifting into a chant: ''Thy will be done. O Lord...
AFTER THE DEACON WAS MURDERED- Cornelia Penfield-Putnam...
...they. They formed a Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, backed largely by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. To head the inquiry two years ago they chose, an engineer -President Albert Lyon Scott of Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc. (industrial specialists), a Brown graduate (1900), minister's son, onetime Baptist deacon and Bible class teacher. Year ago Engineer Scott went to the Orient with an Appraisal Commission headed by Harvard Professor of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking. The Commission roved about, returned last July. Last week Engineer Scott began making public the report of the inquiry, which will be submitted to mission...
...sanguine. Died. Sir Horatio Gilbert Parker, 69, historical novelist (The Seats of the Mighty, The Right of Way, The Lane That Had No Turning, The Trespasser, The Power and the Glory, etc., etc.) ; after a heart attack; in London. At Trinity College, Toronto, he passed his examination for deacon's orders in the Church of England, turned literature lecturer at 21. Illness sent him to California, whence he went to the South Sea Islands, Australia, London. At 28 he showed his stories to British War Correspondent Archibald Forbes who called them "the finest collection of titles" he had ever...
...months later, James Freeman did so. Bishop Potter helped him read for Holy Orders, had him tutored, ordained him deacon in 1894, priest in 1895. Rector of a Yonkers church for 16 years, he was called to Minneapolis in 1910. When Rector Freeman was considered for the deanship of St. John the Divine or the presidency of St. Stephen's College, the elder J. P. Morgan told him: "You'll not be happy in a town of 300,000 inhabitants. New York is where you belong. You'll be packing your crockery within six months...