Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Bishop of St. Albans, words majestic and inspiring might be expected. The present bishop is the Right Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, graduate of Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He is 59 and long married. His fondness for golf and fishing proclaim him a philosophic gentleman. But an irruption from him last fortnight revealed the length to which a modern churchman, however anciently hallowed his setting, may let himself go when oppressed by the wickedness of the times. Bishop Furse was moved to speak out about divorce and about persons unbaptized. These matters had been rankling until the Bishop...
Once upon a time Sindbad the Sailor set out on his Arabian Nights adventures from Basra. With Mr. Crane in Basra were his son John and the Rev. Henry A. Bilkerd, a Reformed Church missionary from Kalamazoo, Mich. They planned to set off at dawn for the Sultanate of Kuwait, 85 miles distant, despite the fact that nomadic and warlike subjects of the Great Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz were thought to be marauding not far off. Apparently Mr. Crane judged that his party would be safe, and with the best reason: in 1926 Sultan Ibn Saud...
Resigned. Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson, executive vice president of Victor Talking Machine Co.; to go camera-hunting in Africa.* Resigned. The Very Rev. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, "to devote himself to preaching and literary work" and also because of much-bruited differences of opinion between himself and the Cathedral's Bishop William Thomas Manning (TIME...
...Rev. J. Frank Norris, fundamentalist pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Tex., took, last week, a swift automobile ride which ended with a view of his church, Sunday school building and gymnasium?all destroyed by fire...
...predicted from pulpit of Rev. John Roach Straton that "sin-steeped" Manhattan would be demolished "within one hour...