Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. James Harris Rogers, 79, inventor of radio & telegraphic appliances; at Hyattsville, Md.; of heart disease. During the War he contrived a device for undersea radio communication; on the Western Front he established a radio station to intercept German army communications.
Observers waited all last week to see what answer U. S. Protestants might make to a Vatican pronouncement of last fortnight credited to the Pope in person. Said the Pope: "Protestantism is getting more and more exhausted. . . . Behold Catholicism, which shines in the clear light, while Protestantism goes from denial...
No U. S. Protestant leader made answer. Of representative Protestant journals, only the Christian Herald took notice of the Pope's statement. Editor Stanley High quoted it, made no comment. Said an editor of the Protestant Episcopal Churchman: "Only the Protestant editors are getting more and more exhausted."
U. S. churchmen who listened to the buzz last September when Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Brooklyn Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the...
Pastor Helm's letter of resignation to the council said: "I doubt whether any church in the United States has a better background for the appreciation of the practical significance of the religion of Jesus than has Bethel. The first premise of Christianity and its most perfect synonym is brotherhood...