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First to go was none other than P.C.A.'s cochairman, Columnist Frank Kingdon. At the closed meeting of P.C.A.'s executive committee in New York, ex-Preacher...
...change of scene was healthy also for the Choral Society, which showed considerable improvement over its first performance some weeks ago in Sanders. Ruth Abbot's arrangements of two Kentucky folksongs, "The Water-Cresses" and Hi Ho the Preacher Man," were sung with delicacy and grace. Cynthia Sweeney's solo in the former showed confidence and excellent control of her nice soprano...
...stern Calvinist preacher, Boyd Bode was brought up to be "a good 16th Century Calvinist." At school in Illinois, he dutifully mastered his catechism, the doctrines of predestination and a high tariff. At home one day, young Bode remarked that something might be said for Evolution. His father rushed out of the house, hitched up his horses, and drove all day, praying for his son's soul. "For me," said Bode, "it was a period of unmitigated suffering...
Back in 1867 the famous preacher Henry Ward Beecher wrote a novel, his only one, Norwood; or Village Life in New England, which was serialized in the New York Ledger, and for which he received the then fabulous sum of $25,000. One of the minor characters was a mischievous boy from Hardscrabble, the poor down-at-the-heels farming suburb of Norwood...
...from friends, some of whom had watched Nellie transform her boarding house into the swank Desert Inn. The story of Nellie had become local history: how she had set herself up as a sort of self-appointed Chamber of Commerce to bring tourists in, keep gamblers out, double as preacher at burial services, and occasionally help neighbors...