Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people marry? Not-so the Rev. Paul Dresser of Bath, Maine, aroused the National Council of Swedenborgian Ministers, meeting at Cincinnati, last week, by telling them-not solely for the procreation of children. "Marriage itself, in its purity, is the precious jewel of the Christian religion, and is heaven on earth." Mr. Dresser went on to quote Mrs. Margaret Sanger on the race of morons which is threatening our civilization. Said he: ''God only knows, how many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children are born every year, of whom it could truthfully be said...
...recently, at Manitou, Col., was held a Social Service Conference of the Episcopal Church. There spoke the Secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy ? the Rev. W. B. Spofford, exponent of Christ-in-Industry, and he too spoke of ''Golden Rule" Nash...
...Than the Rev. Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, few distinguished divines have been honored by more distinguished universities. Two weeks ago, Columbia University, and, last week, Princeton, conferred upon him an honorary D.D. Already he had been so honored by New York University, 1906; by Yale, his alma mater, 1915 ; by Harvard...
...loves, deeds, progeny, businesses of all Biblical characters who amounted to anything-they have been properly set down at last by the Rev. E. Fletcher Allen, M. A., in a book with a cover as blue as the Sea of Galilee entitled Who's Who in the Bible...
...fatal mistake of trying to combine the goldsmith's craft with religion," to Zipporah, "the Midianite wife of Moses," this book embraces many characters that appear in the modern Who's Who under a different guise; several names, indeed, may be found in both books. In the Rev. Allen's, the name of Baruch belongs to "a young nobleman"; Cain, says Author Allen, is the same name as Smith. David gets the most space, nigh four pages; Paul is second, Moses third. Goliath who, says the author, "was probably ten feet high," gets only a paragraph...