Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first indication of strong public backing of Superintendent Gill was seen in a circular letter sent to 1000 ministers by Rev. George Lyman Paine, secretary of the Greater Boston Federation of Churches, urging them to support Gill's administration...
Into the First Baptist Church at Easton, Maryland, on December 3rd, 1933 crowded 306 people or more for the final service of Rev. Ray Lakin's two week evangelistic campaign...
...After Rev. Lakin's message of the evening, C. Thomas Brookshire, D. D. pastor of the Church, retired to make ready for the baptismal service which he was to conduct. When he stepped into the pool he offered a most impressive dedicatory prayer and one at a time baptised two young ladies, the first retiring before the second came. The third candidate was James E. Dean, an electrical contractor of Easton, and just as Pastor Brookshire reached up his right hand to assist Dean into the pool, he fell back into the water, dead. Dean reached into the water...
...Thomas Brookshire, D. D. was pronounced dead of a heart attack and no indications of drowning. The Rev. Brookshire is survived by his widow Catherine Main Brookshire and one son John Decker Brookshire...
Died. Right Rev. Edward Campion Acheson, 75, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, father of onetime Treasury Undersecretary Dean G. Acheson; after an attack of neuritis; in Middletown, Conn...