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...easily have predicted for him an easy path to a Manhattan bishopric. But the gypsy could not have guessed how passionately Presbyterian he is -this modern liberal; and the radical honesty of the man would sooner lead him to be anything but Society's parson. He became (1905) pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan. Since then it has overshadowed many a more imposing home of prayer. It had, and still has, wealthy parishioners of influence. Dr. Coffin invited in residents of neighboring gum-chewing Third Avenue, not to exclude, but go hand in hand, with Madison Avenue. Certain...
...longer, deeper effort. Many of the elders liked the children's sermons best. Once the subject was "The Man that Swallowed Himself." (" . . . the lips of a fool will swallow up himself." Ecclesiastes X:12). "How would you like to be thought of as just a mouth?" the Pastor asked the children, defining fools as boys and girls who bragged, told tales, lied...
...Fundamentalist, of Fort Worth, Tex., who on July 17 decreed death to Dexter E. Chipps, lumber dealer, and acted as agent himself (TIME, July 26 et seq.). The now deceased had ventured to expostulate with the parson for maligning D. E. Chipps' friend, the Mayor of Fort Worth. Pastor Norris, who has since been at liberty on bail, preaching weekly to vast throngs, has now secured a change of venue in his trial, from Fort Worth to Austin, state capital; and a postponement of date to Jan. 10. Mayor H. C. Meacham, bespectacled, cautious-eyed friend of the unfortunate...
...Pastor's story is self-defense. L. H. Nutt, elder in his church, says he heard Chipps threaten bodily harm to the Pastor. One Carl Glaze, 14, only witness of the tragedy, has signed a statement declaring he saw Chipps shot to death in an anteroom to the pastor's study...
...Pastor's career has been stormy. A Ku Klux Klan member, he has been tried (and acquitted) for arson, was an aide of William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes Evolution trial, has vigorously denounced race tracks, Catholics, other things and persons...