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Rotary International was internationally roasted last week by a Catholic bishop in Spain and a Methodist pastor in Manhattan. Because Rotary clubs seem to him to omit the religious idea, because it is "damnable for individuals or societies to try to moralize with a naturalist or atheistic doctrine," the Bishop of Valencia issued a bulletin discouraging Catholics from-joining the clubs...
...Jesus came to New York today, He would not be identified with any . . . Rotary club," said the Rev. John A. Vollenweider, associate pastor of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. "He [Christ] . . . was mindful of the need of those who were rich in this world's goods, but had a sense of spiritual poverty...
Died. The Rev. Joseph C. Hartzell, 86, onetime Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Africa, who during 46 years of church service averaged 35,000 miles of travel per year, never having an accident; from injuries inflicted by house-breakers on-June 1; in Cincinnati...
Evangelist William Ashley Sunday last week preached a "shortstop" sermon against Governor Smith's presidential candidacy. Theme: "Crooks, cork screwers, bootleggers, whisky politicians; they shall not pass-even to the White House." Place: Ocean Grove, N. J., Methodist seashore resort...
...Their goal was anti-rakish, antiseptic fun, and they achieved it. The heroine is a mid-western lass who hungers for romance and esthetics. In Venice she tumbles for an insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins her with a recrudescence of Gallic...