Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stony Brook, N. Y., where ministers held a conference last week, the Rev. A. C. Robertson of Louisville, Ky., denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect. Said he: "I feel like flinging a brick at a reporter when he refers to me as a 'gentleman of the cloth.' A preacher should dress and act so that no one suspects he is a minister and should avoid the 'Belasco collar...
...Neptune, N. J., the Rev. Irving Meier, pastor of the Full Gospel Church, was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct because he persisted in conducting "screeching, howling and hilarity" in his tent-tabernacle after 10 p. m. Upon his promising to cease his pentecostal endeavors at a seemly hour he was discharged...
...last week he caused to be published in the Churchman his decree deposing from ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church the Rev. Harold Arthur Lynch of Manhattan for marrying a second time after having been divorced for a cause other than adultery. The Protestant Episcopal Church recognizes only adultery as the legitimate excuse for divorce...
Died. The Right Rev. William Cabell Brown, 66, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; of heart disease; in London...
...Dillwyn Parrish, brother of Anne Parrish, the Perennial Bachelor lady, last year came forward as another sharp-eyed anatomist of life's nobodies. Repugnantly dear to him is the tragicomedy of middling people-middling honest, middling happy, middling alive. He called his first novel Smith Everlasting. The Rev. Fred Rain of Gray Sheep is another victim of everlasting Smithness in body, mind and spirit-a figure at once lovable, pitiful and contemptible from the equivocal nature of Smithness, for which another name is stagnation...