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...unwary sinners to their souls' salvation. On Sundays, the atheist must have a radio of high selectivity to keep hymns and homilies from intruding on the more secular programs which he, in his darkness, prefers to hear. Church fronts are everywhere decorated with lame aphorisms which a well-meaning pastor has composed after the pattern of happier advertising slogans. Long before the Babbitts had dreamed of luncheon clubs, church suppers, preceded and followed by prayer, were a universal institution...
...last hours at Swampscott were full. In evidence were Adolph S. Ochs, Eliot Wadsworth (candidate for Mayor of Boston), Nicholas Longworth and chiefs of various Massachusetts fire departments. There was a last party aboard the Mayflower, given for the pastor and choir of the Salem Tabernacle Congregational Church, which the Coolidges attended all summer. There was a last dinner at Red Gables with Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...
Trusting Providence to let fall upon him the mantle of Fundamentalist leadership which the late W. J. Bryan wore without rival, John Roach Straton, loud Manhattan pastor, has toured from pulpit to pulpit. The sermon which has packed churches miles from Broadway, reaches its climax in a rhapsodic disruption of the modern dance. The climax, as delivered in Louisville, northern capital of territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, follows verbatim...
...Augusta F. Stetson, Christian Science Teacher and practitioner, was sent to Manhattan by Mrs. Eddy in 1886 to help organize the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in that city. She was for 17 years pastor and first reader of the church; differences with certain of the authorities caused her resignation...
...other of them, Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, for many years (1907-1922) pastor of a Brooklyn church, was last week unanimously elected President of The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches-to be held at Stockholm. In a colorful speech he recalled the fact that fundamental principles unite those who are seeking reconstruction of the world. He recalled the obligations resting on all Christians...