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Evangelists of the Methodist Episcopal Church South lamented last week that they had no jobs. Said Rev. John Patty of Chattanooga, addressing the convention of evangelists at Memphis: "Unemployment . . . has reached serious proportions and something must be done to enlist the sympathy of the . . . ministers, to open the doors of the churches...
...recommended the following Hoover Cabinet in an editorial: "For Secretary of State, the Hon. Jim Vance, President and publisher of the Fellowship Forum; for Secretary of the Treasury, the Hon. F. Scott McBride, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League; for Secretary of Labor, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Church South; for Attorney General, the Hon. Mabel Willebrandt; for Postmaster General, the Hon. Billy Sunday; for Secretary of the Navy, the Hon. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the K. K. K.; for Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Ella A. Boole, National President...
...voice strained raw, his fists milling, a Negro evangelist towered above his wailing audience in the little Mount Olive (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion Church at Waterbury, Conn., last week. He rose to his toes and menaced the moaning Negroes with all the horrors of hell. Hysterical cries burst from the listeners: "That's right, preacher! Go on and preach, man! Amen, amen...
...Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America for four years and it was necessary that someone be elected to replace him. Accordingly, the delegates, convened last week in Rochester, N. Y., cast their votes and Bishop Francis J. McConnell, now of the New York Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church was discovered to have been made president...
After services in the Baptist Church at Charlottesville-conducted by a Presbyterian, with a sermon by a Methodist * -the President shook hands with Governors Angus W. McLean of North Carolina and Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who escorted him to the mansion of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia for a buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University...