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...unidentified Chinese was reported last week to have shot through the heart the Rev. Dr. Walter F. Seymour, 65, superintendent of the U. S. Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Tsining, in southwestern Shantung Province. Details were completely lacking due to the chaotic conditions produced in Shantung by the Civil War (TIME, April 30) which continued last week to centre around Tsinan, the capital of the province. When told of the murder of Dr. Seymour, his daughter Ada, said at Milwaukee, last week: "I have been strengthening myself for some time to receive such news...
Under pretext of conducting a group of U. S. clergymen through the University, last week, strapping Missionary Zwemer began to distribute Presbyterian tracts. Soon some hundreds of the students became excited by this apparently inflammatory literature. One unshakably Moslem student sought to tear the last of the tracts from Dr. Zwemer's potent fist, but other students barkened for a time to his loud, impressive words...
...graduate (1911) of Union Theological School, Mr. Thomas used to assist at the Brick Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue and 37th Street, Manhattan. Few strikes of any size in or near Manhattan, few free speech fights or Sacco-Vanzetti trials, are conducted without his assistance. In 1924 he was a candidate for Governor of New York...
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...Caldwell, N. J., the members of the First Presbyterian Church met to decide what to do with their benevolence budget of $5,500. By a vote that was three less than unanimous, they decided to discontinue their annual contribution of $250 to the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League. "The League," they said, "is no longer a charitable organization...