Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Pershing's utterances was the announcement of plans for another National Church in Washington, this one not to be a U. S. Westminster Abbey or even a cathedral. Instead, it will be the largest U. S. cruciform church; it will be called the National Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Charles Wood, D.D., president of its incorporators, revealed that a site had already been chosen, that the church would be 290 feet long and 150 feet wide, that its steeple or tower would rise 222 feet above the ground...
...conspicuously drunk and beat his wife; on such occasions, his children, Alma, Woodrow Wilson, Smith, and Thelma, would stand in a corner, too scared to look. About a year ago, Smith T. Petty disappeared; after a decent interval, Mrs. Petty died. Last May, a Baptist revival preacher, the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, gave a sermon in Reidsville on the subject of repentance. After his sermon, Alma Petty, sweet & pretty, who had married the village fire chief, Eugene Gatlin, went to him and made a confession. She said she had killed her father with an axe and put his body...
...father. The courtroom was filled with reporters from Southern papers (Northern newssheets neglected the story) and with the inhabitants of the countryside who felt a strange unreality in the proceedings, as if they had suddenly stopped being real people and had become instead the actors in a play. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue told his story to the court; after that he sat listening; acute observers noted that he often pared his finger nails. The brothers and sisters of Alma Gatlin supported her contention that, in point of fact; Mrs. Petty had killed their father in self defense and would...
...lawyers, Percy T. Stiers, made the point that gave the trial its religious significance. Should a confession made, in complete confidence, to a minister, be brought into court as evidence? Lawyer Stiers pointed a thin finger at the Rev. Pardue and called him "a witch-burning Judas." He said: "Let us have freedom to go to our pastors about the things that bear on our souls." At the end there was further exchange of epithet...
...contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin was not guilty of the murder of her father. The Rev. Pardue said, "I can truthfully say that I have done my duty to God and the State." Mrs. Gatlin embraced her husband, set off to get her curling iron which she had left in the jail, and then went home...