Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pews were filled every Sunday with arch, starched ladies, who often took only a perfunctory interest in the services, and elaborately gallant grandees who, with some show of munificence, dropped their confederate greenbacks into the collection plate. St. Paul's is still a fashionable church. Its rector, the Rev. Dr. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., last week pleased most of his parishioners, surprised some of them, as he surprised many other Episcopalians, by announcing that in future he would receive into communicant membership, without the rite of confirmation, members of other Christian denominations...
...similar innovation had been made the week before by the Rev. Dr. Peter Ainslie, pastor of the Christian Temple in Baltimore. The essential purpose which prompted Dr. Tucker and Dr. Ainslie to such action was well expressed by the former: "The first step in a unity of Christian peoples is for the Protestant sects to get together. There can be no real discussion of a union as long as Rome is forced to deal with numerous sects, all holding divergent beliefs...
Died. The Rev. Dr. William Elliot Griffis, 84, organizer in 1870 of Japan's first public schools, of heart disease; in Winter Park...
Last week the trustees of the Broadway Tabernacle offered to increase by $2,500 Dr. Jefferson's yearly salary of $10,000, thereby making him the highest paid U. S. Congregationalist minister.? At the annual church dinner, the Rev. Dr. Charles Edward Jefferson, whose ability is the result of many years of intelligent effort, refused to have his salary raised. Said he: ". . . My needs are simple and the present salary is enough to care for them despite the increased cost of living during 30 years. I have never wanted more than a Ford...
...Rev. Harry Pinneo Dewey, Plymouth Church, Minneapolis, has $12,000 per year. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Central Church, Brooklyn, gets $12,000 a year, and perhaps as much again for daily column writing...