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Through empty dark streets in Cincinnati about 3 a. m. one night last week, a handful of pious folk hastened to North Presbyterian Church. Its lights blazed strangely, excitingly. Inside, in the pulpit, was Rev. Homer Campbell, reading aloud the beginning of the New Testament, the gospel of Matthew. After a time he let a parishioner mount the pulpit, take his place, continue the reading. Day broke, the morning brightened, more worshippers drifted in, and still the reading went on, through Mark, Luke and John, into Acts. Fresh readers spelled tired ones every ten minutes. The words...
...carpenter had gotten out of bed and, as is his habit, began the day reading aloud from the Bible. This day he began at the beginning of the Old Testament, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." After he had finished, by prearrangement another North Presbyterian parishioner elsewhere took up the reading. Throughout the day, a businessman on a trolley, a stenographer in the street, a group of old ladies in a home, at scheduled times took up 130 separate stints of enunciating psalms, proverbs, laws, lists of begatters...
...pious stunt introduced in an evangelistic campaign, the Cincinnati Bible-reading was so timed that Old & New Testaments, within and without North Presbyterian Church, would be finished simultaneously by nightfall. It took 16 hr. 40 min. to read the Bible's 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, 773,746 words, 3,566,480 letters...
...When the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America last counted its pennies (for the year 1931-32) it had been given nearly $8,000,000 less than the year before. As in other churches salaries have been reduced, with unemployed brothers and hungry parishioners to care for. One thoroughgoing economy was lately proposed-to omit the annual General Assembly next May. To save $25,000 in delegates' expenses the Assembly will be held in Columbus, Ohio instead of Fort Worth, Tex. But beyond that the Presbyterians will not go. Indeed, last week, fighting for their Assembly aroused...
...until the motherly contralto brought him back for a bow, gave him a resounding kiss. The War turned Richard Crooks's mind from singing. He overstated his age to join the 626th Aero Squadron, learned flying from Col. Clarence Chamberlin. He was selling insurance when the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church chose him from 46 applicants to be its tenor soloist. There followed concerts with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, concerts on his own, numerous festival engagements, finally an operatic debut six years ago in Germany...