Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ernest A. Thorsell, whose wife and son died a year ago, found life lonely. Last week he enrolled at the Massachusetts State Police Training School, to become a State Trooper. Last Sunday he appeared in his pulpit dressed as usual. Presently he will roar up on his motorcycle, preach in a trooper's blue uniform...
...Special service for new students in the University Memorial Chapel. President Murray Bartlett, of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., will preach...
...Nation, particularly to the Committee on Public Information headed by George Creel. Ministers were the first to demand, as suitable for churches, such material as a lantern-slide lecture on "Ruined Churches in France." Ministers were also glad to give their pulpits to "Four-Minute Men," to preach mimeographed War sermons sent out by Propagandist Creel, and sometimes, like the late Dr. Percy Stickney Grant of Manhattan's Church of the Ascension, to let Mr. Creel himself speak...
...Manhattan Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning summoned Bishop William Hall Moreland from Sacramento to preach on "The Oxford Movement and Its Influence on the Church and the World...
...Buck is a converted missionary. Her life among the Chinese has convinced her that men are indeed brothers under their skins. Her publicly professed desire for a "creedless faith" led to her resignation as a Presbyterian missionary (TIME, May 8), but in her novels and stories she continues to preach her creedless doctrine. The 14 stories in The First Wife show Chinese torn between Western ideas and their own traditions, drowned by revolution, inundated by famine-spreading Hoods, but always pathetically human, essentially understandable. Some of her people: A wife who has waited seven years for her husband to return...