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...PASTOR OF POGGSEE - Gustav Frenssen-Houghton Mifflin...
...Author. Gustav Frenssen, himself a onetime parson, son of a carpenter, resigned his pastorate, but not his profession, in 1902 to write homiletic novels. His manner of writing may seem at first simpleminded, but its energy and innocence grow on you: The Pastor of Poggsee is as good as good bread. Discriminating U. S. readers know Frenssen particularly by one other (translated) book: Jorn...
...Reno's clergy organized against the new régime? Some oppose it, but hope lessly. One apologist for it is Rev. Dr. Alfred J. Case, Methodist pastor who lent his pulpit to Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts during his campaign for re-election last March. Recalling that Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals had called Reno a "compound of Sodom, Gomorrah and perdition," Dr. Case said that Reno's churches were wellattended, that the community in general was suffering no bad effects...
Sirs: In your issue of July 13 your correspondent refers to Chinese General Cohen being the only Chinese white Mason he knew of. The late Dr. Russell H. Conwell, former pastor of Temple Baptist Church, Philadelphia was also made a Mason in China. As a young man he was sent to China as a correspondent for a New York newspaper. He became very friendly with the captain of the vessel he sailed on and among other things discussed Masonry, with the result that when they reached China Dr. Conwell expressed the desire to become a Free Mason. So the captain...
...Violet Blanche's potent relatives and speakers at the Central Hall meeting last fortnight gave the lie direct to the Attorney General. After a few kind words by the chairman, famed Dr. Frederick William Norwood, pastor of the London City Temple, a Mr. J. J. Edwards rose to make the speech of the evening...