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...girl who hovers at the edge of a neurotic revulsion against the role of her sex. Raised in a commonplace, puritanical Iowa town, Selma thought one of her schoolmates was going to have a baby because a boy kissed her. In college she fell in love with an evangelist, became deeply religious, watched the unfolding of an ugly campus "romance" when an effeminate music teacher married to stop the gossip that was threatening his job. At home she saw a still more sordid end to romance when Kirby Townsend married, communicated a venereal disease to his wife, was finally crippled...
...Assumption of Our Lady, a little group of devout U. S. Anglo-Catholics gathered on Memorial Drive by the River Charles in Cambridge, Mass. There for a decade a Romanesque monastery has been intermittently under construction, the U. S. mother house of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers), oldest (1865) order of priests in the Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles Jay Connick, able Organist Everett Titcomb...
...which Dwight Moody founded. Among men who will help Dr. McDowell in arranging Moody celebrations are Dr. John R. Mott and Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, prime exponents of the evangelism for which East Northfield stands today; Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, who as a Cambridge student was converted by Evangelist Moody; Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who was inspired to work as a medical missionary in Labrador by the U. S. man of God; Dwight Moody's only surviving son, Paul Dwight, now 57, forceful president of Middlebury (Vt.) College, successor to his late brother, William Revell Moody, as director...
...ushers, 1,000 choirsingers. In Philadelphia, they attracted 900,000 people in nine weeks. Said Moody: "It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ, and it is a pleasure the angels can't enjoy." But toward the end of his career this evangelist, who was no great speaker, no great theologian, discovered that most of the people who went to hear him were already church members. On Manhattan's East Side he experimented with an enfeebled Presbyterian church, but with all his talent for vigorous organization he could not fill it. To build from...
...today, churchmen throughout the land like to think of themselves as potent opinion-makers in any election year. Although the 1936 Presidential campaign officially got under way only last week, U. S. men of God were already assuming their roles in it. Editorialized The Christian Evangelist, organ of the Disciples of Christ: "We do not recall any other recent Presidential contest in which the Ins and the Outs tried so vigorously to capture for their respective parties the sanctions and blessings of organized religion...