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Thus daily did Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, who last year rejected a Methodist Bishopric (TIME, June 4), conduct noonday services in the vaudeville theatre. Every afternoon, the harlequinades and brass buffoonery of the vaudeville followed. Last week, Dancer Gilda Gray was the star...
...Jones discourages meta physical attributes. In the U. S. he has lately been speaking to students and congregations throughout the land. Next week he will return to India. Claimed alike by U. S. Fundamentalists and Modernists, he is independent of both, holds theologic allegiance only to the Methodist Church and to its Board of Foreign Missions...
...oldest) where George Washington and New York's first Governor, George Clinton, worshipped, is five blocks from Wall Street. St. Peter's, Manhattan's oldest Catholic church, rises in the shadow of the Woolworth Building. In 1766, in John Street, the first U. S. Methodist-Episcopal society opened its first chapel. Daily services are still held in John Street...
...Joseph Sproule preached and preached; he preached all morning and far into the afternoon; he ate his lunch in the pulpit. Thus did he prevent his appointed successor, the Rev. C. M. Marvine, who sat waiting in the congregation, from taking his post in the Malvern Methodist Church. That night, however, Pastor Marvine seized the pulpit, and church doors were locked against Pastor Sproule. Repulsed by guards with whom he tussled, Pastor Sproule held service in a nearby house. "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," he cried. Late reports indicated that...
Died. Asa Griggs Candler, 77, of Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola tycoon & philanthropist, brother of Methodist Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta; in Atlanta...