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Died. Archibald James Carey, 62. Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; in Chicago. Son of a plantation slave, Bishop Carey was educated at Atlanta University, Chicago Theological Seminary and University of Chicago...
...brightest young men from our colleges," last week announced Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Morals, '"have been assigned the task of obtaining the signatures of 5,000,000 U. S. inhabitants to a pledge of total abstinence from intoxicating beverages...
...history-making climax of the cardinal's tour took place. From the Texas legislature had come a unanimous invitation to address the Texas Senate! True, in Texas as in Louisiana, Roman Catholics form the largest single denomination.* Memories of the early Mission Fathers underlie the Baptist and Methodist culture. But Texas voted against Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928. And never before in history has a Prince of Rome been asked to address a State legislative body in the South. The affecting nature of these facts was clearly reflected upon Cardinal Hayes's face when Lieut.-Governor Edward Witt...
Many a religionist has been shrewd in obtaining and holding wealth for his church. Others have been canny in their personal affairs as well. Unfortunate was the bucket-shopping of Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (TIME, May 26 et seq.) But remarkable were the financial coups of Brigham Young who took unto himself the great monopolies of the Desert, tolls on gates and roads, timber rights. The late Benjamin ("King") Purnell of the House of David, at Benton Harbor, Mich, across Lake Michigan from Zion City, took unto himself and his Queen Mary the rights...
Hortense Norris, New York's first woman judge (TIME, Feb. 28), continued. In clipped, pseudo-British accents she tried to defend herself from the nips of Harland B. Tibbetts, one of the Seabury legal terriers. In one instance a Methodist Deaconess had brought a 20-year-old Greenwich Village girl art student into court, accused her of living with a man. By Judge Norris' order and without recourse, the artist was lodged in a home for wayward girls within two hours of her arrest. Throughout the recital of her alleged irregularities Magistrate Norris preserved a frigid calm, gave...