Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fell, their fingers wiggling in concerted movement. Only sound in the church was the creaky tenor voice. When the hymn ended, the gesticulations of the half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church of the Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid 10?. The lights went out save for one beam from a shaded lamp near the screen. The lecturer...
Suddenly there was a rustle and a hush.On the platform Franklin D. Roosevelt, who almost at that very hour was completing his 366th day as President of the U. S.. appeared on the arm of an aide. There was a round of applause. The Rev. Ze Barney Thome Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate, raised his hand and began "Our Father, which art in Heaven. . . ." Piously the 3,500 businessmen mumbled the familiar phrases. The prayer over. General Johnson, who had just concluded a four-day wrestle with the critics of NRA (see p. 15), stepped forward to begin...
Episcopal churchmen tell of how Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, Bishop of Southern Ohio, lately made a visitation in one of his parishes. Getting out of his automobile he carefully locked its doors. "Don't bother to lock your car, Bishop," said the senior warden. "We're all honest around here." Sharply retorted Bishop Hobson: "Oh, no, you're not! You've been using your missionary money to pay your coal bill...
Well aware of these practices, Episcopal churchmen have mostly maintained a discreet silence. One who spoke out bitterly last week was 33-year-old Rev. C. Leslie ("Les") Glenn of famed old Christ Church, Cambridge, son-in-law of wealthy Harper Sibley, who sits on the potent Episcopal National Council. Cried Rector Glenn...
...Pentecostal Church of God in Baltimore one night last week, Rev. John William Pitcher and five members set out to break the cover-to-cover Bible reading record (69 hr., 17 min.) of Rev. Finis J. Dake & team of Zion City, Ill. (TIME, Feb. 26). It took Preacher Pitcher's team 50 hr. and 56 min. to go from Genesis to Revelation. Then all arose and sang: "Praise God from Whom all blessings flow...