Word: revs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oppose the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. Lapsley A. McAfee of Berkeley, Calif., the Moderates chose a man possessed of three extraordinarily varied qualifications: a compelling, genial personality; an indorsement (last year) from the late Fundamentalist William J. Bryan; and a high administrative record in a big position. He is Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson, bald Bismarckian lately retired president of Ohio State University. When Dr. Macartney tried to reconcile Dr. McAfee's alleged tolerance with Dr. McAfee's own declaration that "there is room in the church for all but the extreme Modernists," the Liberal nominator, Rev. Dr. Roy E. Vale...
Leader Clarence Macartney fiercely attacked it because it did not specifically condemn the New York Presbytery for having licensed a preacher who doubted the virgin birth. Thereupon, his brother, Rev. Albert Macartney, spoke up: "The only trouble with him [Clarence] is that he is not married. If Clarence would only get married there would be more harmony in the church and he would not have so much time to worry over other people's theology...
Later, the resignations of President Wojciechowski and the entire Witos Cabinet were brought to Warsaw by a priest, the Rev. Tokarzewski, and delivered to Marshal Pilsudski. Completely victorious, he proclaimed...
Moderator. In Brooklyn Rev. Henry H. Proctor is the unpretending pastor of an unpretentious little Congregational Church and its equally unpretentious membership. Yet the qualities of heart and mind that Rev. Mr. Proctor presents to his little flock have not passed unnoticed. Powerful pastors of powerful churches esteem him well - men like Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of the Central Congregational Church and James Percival Huget of the great Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, who are his neighbors. They and their fellow Congregational ministers met last week in Manhattan to choose a moderator for their New York Association of Congregational churches. They...
...Baptist Church has organized the Lord's Day Alliance, and under the guidance of Rev. Harry L. Bowlby is moving heaven and earth to wipe out by civil statutes every ounce of pastime and pleasure of those weary and toiling masses who more and more are looking to Sunday as a day of healthful recreation and happy exercise...