Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carrie Gloyd married the Rev. David Nation, veteran of the Civil War. In 1901 the Rev. Nation, divorced her on grounds of desertion, cruelty. It had been her custom to sit in the front pew while he was preaching, comment audibly upon his sermon. When she had listened as long as seemed to her sufficient, she would shout out: "That will be about all for today, David!" In 1900 Carrie Nation, began to see visions and to hear angel voices. In church she became ecstatic, ran up and down the aisles, clapped her hands, shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord...
...Prayer by the Rev. Mr. P. S. Phalen...
...Benediction by the Rev. Mr. Phalen...
Illinois Episcopal clergymen assembled at Freeport, Ill., last week to analyze the reluctance of divinity school graduates to settle in small towns. It has become as difficult for a country community to hold a parson as it has been to hold a physician. Rev. H. W. Foreman of Manhattan, national director of rural work for the Episcopal Church, told the Illinois men that this was the condition of all the U. S.: "The great difficulty with the rural situation at present is that many of our clergy are merely 'tenant parsons' There is just as much danger...
Superior, Wis., is a progressive town with shiny buildings, civic pride and a school board.This school board, headed by the Rev. A. T. Ekblad and backed by the Mayor, intends to prepare Superior children for "life" (i. e., business). In Central High School there has been for 23 years a popular teacher, Lulu J. Dickinson, who preaches the humanities and tries to steer her pupils toward college. On March 14, the school board ousted her because she had been twitting its members before her classes. Forthwith, sly pupils wrote on blackboards: "We want our Lulu back." On April Fool...