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...produced in the U. S. (1901), is revived every third year at Santa Clara, Calif. Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 91, famed oldtime foe of Tammany, of injuries suffered when he, a somnambulist, fell from the porch roof of his home in Ventnor, N. J. In 1892, as pastor of Manhattan's socialite Madison Square Presbyterian Church, bushy-bearded, scholarly Dr. Parkhurst amazed his congregation by a sermon in which he charged that gambling and prostitution were protected by New York's police. He hotly described the Tammany administration as "a damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds, polluted...
What manner of man is the U. S. preacher? He may be Liberal, Moderate or Fundamentalist, poet, teacher or mystic. He is less the scholar-theologian than his brothers in England and Scotland; more the pastor-executive-publicist. He is entertaining and vivacious, but restrained in comparison with the thunderers of half a century ago. He speaks over the radio. He publishes as many volumes of sermons in a year as were published in a decade prior to 1890. He is about 54 years old. "It is doubtful if there has been another period in American history so opulent...
...property of a Long Beach businessman named Charles W. Ackerman. He was scarcely pleased to have it. Businessman Ackerman's troubles with St. John's Church-by-the-Sea were of long standing. Last winter, as chairman of the church council, he squabbled over policies with the pastor, Rev. Felix G. Robinson. One day Pastor Robinson angrily struck Businessman Ackerman, who retaliated. Businessman Ackerman held a $10,000 bond as guarantor of a mortgage on the church. To protect his investment he bid in the church at a foreclosure sale. Last week he presented his fellow Lutherans with...
...shrine waylay picnicking New Yorkers and make it convenient for them to attend to their spiritual duties. For blocks around vehicles, including a fire engine, nosed in for blessing. But traffic jams developed so the priests blessed every half-hour. After the last mass suppliants fol lowed the pastor, Rev. John Joseph Mahon, and another priest outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock garden. A chromium-plated cross surmounts the radiator-cap and a St. Christo pher medal supplants the Cadillac insignia...
They pledged themselves to "watch the polls [lest] the Wets put across any crooked counting of the votes" at forthcoming Repeal elections. They heard Pastor Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church deplore the fact that "a very high public official, who should represent in his personal attitude the sacred ideals of the people, begins his summer vacation in a sailing vessel on Sunday."* They learned from Mrs. Dora B. Whitney of Michigan that recitations of "The Face On The Barroom Floor'' effectively aided a Dry campaign. They passed a resolution asking "fairminded...