Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score or more of stern Baptists ranged themselves in a circle in the study of Rev. Roach Straton, Manhattan's loud-speaking Fundamentalist. It was a steaming day; flies buzzed at the window. The visitors mopped their brows and readjusted their scowls. They were nervous, suspicious; their task was weighty...
Down in the Texas Baptist belt, where Fundamentalism flourishes under the humid (often illiterate) phrases and hot war-whoops of a revivalist-Genesis-trumpeter, Rev. J. Frank Norris, the prevailing belief among the brethren is that whatever Baptist Norris does is done for the Lord, and is by Him blessed. Last week Rev. J. Frank Norris killed...
...Rome, excavations begun several years ago by the Rev. Canon E. S. Hughes, vicar of St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, were said to have removed all doubt that both Saints, Peter and Paul, died in Rome and were buried near the Basilica of San Sebastiano, sometimes called "Basilica Apostolorum", on the Appian Way. The diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek...
Another preacher's name went on the roster of those who have spurned Manhattan pastorates for the greater contentment of provincial charges. The present instance is that of Rev. Robert R. Wicks who has refused to succeed Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin at Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbysterian Church. Pastor Wicks remains; at Holyoke, Mass., industrial boiling potlet...
...Married. Rev. Daniel Bliss, son of the late Dr. Howard Bliss, President of the American University at Beirut, Syria, and John Albert Wilson, both instructors at the University of Beirut; respectively but simultaneously to the two daughters of Rev. Frederick T. Rouse of Worcester, Mass. Winifred Rouse was principal of a preparatory school at Beirut. Mary Rouse was a medical researcher at the University of Beirut...