Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turtle and let friends explain in his behalf the fact, dug up by busy nobodies, that he and Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover, both Quakers, were married by a Catholic priest. The occasion, in 1899, required haste because Mr. Hoover had to sail from California next day for China. The Rev. Raymon Maria Mestries, Monterey mission priest, was no gladder than they that he had a dispensation to marry Protes- tants...
...Innocent III, a Roman Catholic priest might have been unfrocked, nibbled by rats, burned at the stake. But today, under Pius XI, who is an eel & an ogre only to such as Senator Heflin, these statements were applauded by great & good Catholics. They were made last week by the Rev. Francis P. Duffy before the National Republican Club in Manhattan. Father Duffy, no obscure clergyman, was Roman Catholic chaplain of the famed 69th Regiment of New York ("the fighting Irish") during the World War, was advisor to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith in his historic reply to Lawyer Charles C. Marshall...
Immediately, "this body," the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, which, with official delegations from 28 denominations, was holding annual session in Cleveland, became an uproar. Said the Rev. Dr. George Summey of New Orleans: "Now let's be careful lest we touch matters of a political nature and commit ourselves to something that will soil the garments of the Bride of Christ. . . . There is a wide difference of opinion. Now, let's go carefully." Colored Baptist Dr. W. H. Jernagin pleaded in its favor on the grounds that it would give the Negro church confidence...
Cleveland, Ohio, was proposed as the site of a 1930 interdenominational church congress to develop a spiritual and evan- gelical program that would "recapture the imagination" of U. S. youth. Said the Rev. Dr. William Robert King, executive secretary of the Home Missions Council: "We, the churches of the United States, must do something big and adventurous to appeal to the spirit of youth." Six committees will spend the next two years working out a program to accomplish this...
...Rev. Charles E. Jefferson has said that it took him 25 years to master the important detail of "pulpit technique," which, in the recent poll conducted by the Christian Century, caused him to be listed among the 25 most able U. S. preachers. This technique consists of a manner as far removed from oratory as it is from the garbled sensationalism of street corner evangelists. Dr. Jefferson speaks to his large audiences quietly, in the tone of courteous, dignified, lucid and friendly conversation. He does so in the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, a church situated on the boundary of that bright...