Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in The Churchman (Episcopal liberal weekly) the society denied, as it has before, any official affiliation with the Church. The Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., is, however, president ex officio, and the society claims to represent more than 1,500 of the Episcopal clergy. The society has always denied having an official character, notably in 1917 when it championed the Prohibition movement. Last week, however, as for some time past, the Society attacked Prohibition...
...course favors modification. Chief mover of the society's activities is the Rev. James Empringham. Born in England but naturalized a U. S. citizen he is a onetime vice president of the Anti-Saloon League of America. As an author he has published Dangerous Deceits Exposed, Intestinal Gardening...
Died. The Rev. Dr. J. Townsend Russell, since 1918 canon of the Washington Cathedral; in Washington...
...village of New Hampshire, Ohio, the Rev. Ray Dotson, "Holy Roller" Methodist, so wailed and shrieked, so frothed and grovelled, that he got Fred Conrad, a 200-lb. traction worker, all worked up. Fred Conrad went home to "save" his father. The father protested. So 200-lb. Fred Conrad went on a fast. He would, he cried, fast for 40 days and nights "like Jesus did." He would save every soul in New Hampshire...
...Montreal last week the Rev. Charles E. Combe of St. Jude's Anglican Church announced the foundation of the "Fellowship of the East, a mission to the bootleggers and rum runners of Eastern Canada...