Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No Negro need feel ashamed of liberal arts colleges for the race. . . . The writer, a Protestant Negro, ineligible to attend or teach at New Orleans' Xavier (TIME, Oct. 24), invokes Protestant blessings on the enterprise, thanks God for Mother Katherine Drexel whose Catholic philanthropy promises to give Louisiana Negroes...
"If you sing a song, dance a bit or write a book, keep your feet on the ground. Too many of us in the ministry talk over our audiences." That was Dr. Joseph Fort Newton's thought when, three weeks ago, he began to syndicate a daily 500-word...
Zealous and sturdy, the oldtime missionary stepped confidently into a hero's role. He had no backing of wealth, no organization of boards and committees. But behind him was a fresh, vigorous British and U. S. religious awakening; before him the duty, as held by nearly every Protestant church...
Conscious of this tradition of oldtime missionary virility, the Appraisal Commission which surveyed foreign missions for laymen in seven U. S. Protestant Churches (TIME, Oct. 17), looked critically at those who carry on the work today. Said its reports during the past fortnight :
All Souls' Protestant Episcopal Church, at 114th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, was once all white. The southward spread of Harlem has turned it Negro by 300 souls to 50. Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon...