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...Churchman, invalid preacher, who speaks from a wheel chair at the Bethany Memorial Reformed Church, distributed glasses of chilled water to his congregation, announced that this practice would be continued throughout the summer Sabbaths, during the hymns. Growing plants in pots will be placed at the end of each pew, that those who cannot drain their tumblers may have a place to deposit the residue. "There'll be no dry sermons here !" cried the Rev. Mr. Churchman...
Last week, the whilom Van Dyke pew in the First Presbyterian was promptly reëngaged by its former snowy-haired occupant...
Last winter, unable to sit through "schismatic and irritating" Fundamentalist sermons, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, patriarchal poet-diplomat of Princeton, N. J., gave up his family pew, transferred his worshipping from Princeton's First Presbyterian Church to its Second (TIME, Jan.14...
...disciplined as a ship of the line. The other, the Wal- rus, under Captain Flint, contains the ruffianly crew of drunken, careless, filthy, fighting buccaneers, whom Stevenson made famous. There is Long John Silver, the one-legged, still as ingratiating, still as desperate as ever. There is Pew, the crafty blindman, who sees with his ears. There is Billy Bones, the mate. Southward the two vessels sail. Captain Murray is intent on capturing that year's Spanish treasure ship, sailing from Porto Bello, laden with a million and a half pounds of bullion. Flint and his rum-swigging crew...
John Silver, Pew, Billy Bones...