Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 a 26% decrease in contributions to the general funds...
...scheme consists in informing gullible individuals that they (the gullibles) are descendents of one Anneke Jans Bogardus, wife of the Rev. Everardus Bogardus, who owned the valuable plot some two centuries ago. For a modest fee to cover the expenses of investigating the title, the swindlers hold out to their prospects the possibility of sharing in the sale of the property for many millions of dollars, should it be found rightfully to belong to the Bogardus heirs. For many years the clique lived off the "fees" obtained from the "heirs...
Attended an opening devotional in which Rev. Liu Fang (China) led the responses, Rev. Jashwant Chitamber (India) read the lesson, Rev. Henry C. Ballock (South America) led the Apostles Creed, Rev. Alfredo Taglialtela (Italy) called the hymn, Rev. Charles A. Tindley, colored (Delaware), prayed...
Decided to send a special delegation to Washington to urge stricter Prohibition: Bishop Nicholson of Chicago, Bishop Leonard of San Francisco, Judge Pollock of Fargo, N.D., William H. Van Benschoten of New York, Rev. Clarence True Wilson, Secretary of the Church's Temperance Board...
...Holy Father excommunicated Rev. Etesto Buonajuti, Professor of church history at a university in Rome. The Reverend Professor was too "modern...