Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rev. John E. Williams, Vice Chancellor of Nanking University, was the sole U. S. citizen killed, last week, in China. An earnest and simple Christian, he was held in affectionate esteem by thousands of Chinese. Of him Dr. Keigwin, pastor of the Manhattan congregation which maintained Dr. Williams in China, said, on learning of his death, "Jack Williams was one of the best friends China ever had.... If he could speak he would say he accounted it a privilege to go to the Cross as Christ went...
...inquiry room" where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation, where they are told to rejoice and to go to work winning new souls. For 50 years Gypsy Smith has opposed the snow-white pulpits and the gaudy theatrical devices of such sensationalists as Rev. William A. Sunday and Rev. Aimee Semple McPherson. "I am alone," he once said. "It is just Jesus and I. I have no singer, no press agent, no personal worker and no chorus leader. . . . Jesus Christ was the greatest gentleman the world ever knew, and He was an evangelist." Nevertheless...
Because his flock did not relish his criticism of U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg's Latin American policy, the Rev. Vincent G. Burns of the South Congregational Church, Pittsfield, Mass., recently resigned his pastorate. Said he: "In a day when hypocritical clergymen are mouthing old theologies, in a day when mammon-worshiping, penny-pinching hypocrites are defending the system that exploits millions and sucks the lifeblood out of the workers around the world, in a day when snobs and aristocrats hold up the iron wall of class and caste, I have dared to stand up and tell...
...Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Scanlon, 57, President of the National Tem- perance Society, ardent Presbyterian Prohibitionist; of heart dis- ease; in Pittsburgh...
...Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry. Actress Anglin's distinction, as everyone knows, was a long career in classical roles, especially Shakespearean, and a lifelong feeling that she "could not act the part of a sinful, murderous woman." Acting President the Rev. Patrick J. Carroll of Notre Dame said: "She has kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature...