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White again shows a regrettable tendency to lapse into invective against blue-law reformers (now somewhat of a dead issue). Perhaps this inverted tendency to preach is a consequence of the juvenile spiciness in some of his skits. But these are galloped through at such speed that the offhand presentation of "low taste" can hardly give offense...
...Reverend Edward T. Sullixan rector of Trinity Church, Newton Center, will preach at the alumni service in St. John's Chapel at 5 o'clock...
...forward to bear our testimony against all offensive war and to proclaim that the Hebrew prophets were not misguided fanatics when they foretold the swordless and spearless day of God. God has given us here the vision of a warless world. Lord, we go; and as we go, we preach...
...Foster Dwight Coburn- famed. From 1894 to 1914 he was Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture- an elevated post! But he knew his business. He was offered an appointment to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate, refused it. Politics was not his business. He began to preach the doctrine of diversified farming. He "discovered" alfalfa and was a prophet of lucerne, as it was then called, when it was still unknown among its own people. His books, his pamphlets, his articles, went broadcast over Kansas, over the U. S., beyond the continent. They had fetching illustrations, wonderful titles...
...high order of matrimony." The first result of the Gray report was uproar. One Madeline Southard of Winfield, Kan., dashed to the plat form and shook her fist in Bishop Bristol's face. But the report was sustained by a decisive majority. It gives women the right to preach, to baptize, but not to act as shepherdesses of the flock. Antifeminists had a strong ally in Rev. Jashwant Chitamber who pointed out that "the women in India have not begun to wear the breeches as yet." Finance. Luther B. Wilson, New York Bishop, cast gloom upon the multitude by announcing...