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...busy to find a remedy for Depression. James H. Rand Jr., head of Remington Rand, Lessing Rosenwald and General Wood of Sears Roebuck, Frank A. Vanderlip, Automan Errett Lobban Cord and many another formed the "Committee for the Nation," became uninvited disciples of Professor Warren, went forth to preach his doctrine to businessmen and politicians. Last week Committeemen for the Nation had almost a free run of the White House office where their frequent visits left their impress upon the presidential mind...
...headmaster of Rugby School. Bishop David has not only startled Anglicans by leading his congregation in vigorous hymn-singing and joining with other prelates in urging that Christ be depicted as "strong and muscular" (TIME, March 6), but he has also scandalized them by habitually inviting Non-Conformists to preach from his pulpit. When lately Bishop David announced he was bringing in, of all people, a Unitarian, it was too much for the Anglo-Catholics, who resolved to stir up a trial on the grounds that Bishop David's actions were a "grave scandal to Christian people...
...wears a "Kagawa suit" which costs $3 (winter model) or $1.35 (summer). Kagawa founded the Farmer-Peasant Party, has sat in the Japanese Diet as its only outspoken radical. The Government used to put him in jail for helping strikers and stirring up the populace. He would smile amiably, preach to anyone who listened, continue writing books. Like the Mahatma Gandhi, Kagawa keeps a day of silence every week. He too has foreign followers. His Madeline Slade is a Miss Helen Topping, who notes down everything he says. Rare is the Kagawa day that does not begin with prayers long...
...glancing over the list of University Preachers we chanced upon the name and titles of Rev. Mr. Charles R. Brown, who is Dean Emeritus of the Yale Divinity School, and who will preach in the Chapel on November 26. And we were reminded of the fine legends with which Mr. Lucius Beebe was accustomed to clothe the Rev. Mr. Brown. According to this saga, Mr. Brown was an "Ecclesiastical Barnum," who brightened his heyday by acquiring a considerable skill in ventriloquism. It appears that it is never difficult for a preacher to evoke attention from his audience by calling...
...Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the Christian Century "needs plenty of time if he is to achieve the best results oratorically." In one church where he was to "supply" for several Sundays, a clock was placed in the pulpit with a sign: "Preach not over 30 minutes." But "when Dr. Morrison preaches he preaches and a little thing like a clock and an inscription warning him to stop in 30 minutes is as futile as a snowball in the tropics...