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Four years ago when Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell was made president there were murmurings concerning his modernist liberality. The election of Dr. Beaven would cause no such quiverings U. S. Churchmen know him well as an evangelical leader, on the safe side despite his joining with other Federal Council committee members in approving the use of contraceptives. Born in Idaho, son of a British circuit rider. Baptist Beaven went to Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.), studied for the ministry on the Pacific Coast while earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied...
Tied once this year by Louisiana State, Texas Christian wound up its season by clinching the Southwest Conference title against the 1931 champions, Southern Methodist, 8-to-0, at Dallas...
...understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way." Reynolds Rogers attended the County Republican convention, made speeches in which he said he was an intimate of Presidents Roosevelt and Hoover. He campaigned on behalf of the Republican ticket in a schoolhouse address, talked temperance to the Methodist Sunday School. On Armistice Day he delivered an 80-min. address. He always seemed to have money, banked at nearby Bryson City, took a weekly Florida newspaper. He promised his landlord's pretty daughter that he would send her to college...
...Baptist committee of five was formed, headed by Engineer Albert Lyon Scott (Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc.). Because the subject seemed too big for five lone Baptists, an invitation was sent to the laymen of the Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Methodist, Dutch Reformed and United Presbyterian churches. After a preliminary fact-finding study, an Appraisal Commission headed by Engineer Scott and Philosophy Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard, set out to tour the Orient for nine months, returned to the U. S. last summer, began releasing its report to the public last month (TIME...
...unable to do anything but make himself unpleasant. He next encounters the rather brummagem woman he thinks his mother whom he leaves frustrated, but with half given promises which nauseate him. And finally after seeing the squalor and sordidness of a mill town and the hypocritical enthusiasm of a Methodist Camp Meeting, he is merely faced with a sense of his own inadequacy...