Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Humanism used to be a good subject for parlor and dinner table discussions. Few people knew what it actually was or ' where literary Humanism left off and religious Humanism began. Nor did Humanism's expounders get together and codify their beliefs for popular enlightenment. Rev. Charles Francis Potter, onetime Baptist, Unitarian and Universalist. hired Steinway Hall in Manhattan (TIME. Oct. 21, 1929) and still preaches therein, but Professor Irving Babbitt taught something different, and Dr. Paul Elmer More on religious grounds denied them both. Last week, for the first time, the religious Humanists were on common ground. After...
...last week a Vermonter named Peter Pindar Pease arrived at a wooded spot in Ohio with his wife and his oxen and his five children. He was the first settler of a 500-acre tract which had been selected for the town and college of Oberlin. Few months prior, Rev. John J. Shipherd of Elyria. Ohio and Philo P. Stewart, onetime missionary, had obtained land and, in the name of Jean Frédéric Oberlin* planned an institution designed for "the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion." Oberlin College opened in December, 1833, received...
...Christ Triumphant, a virile, blond, blue-eyed, silky-haired, silky-bearded Savior (see cut). The Newhouse Galleries in Manhattan and St. Louis held showings of the canvas, in a room by itself. Col. Todd sent reproductions to the Pope, to Albert, King of the Belgians, and to Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David, Bishop of Liverpool, who recently led some fellow churchmen HI demanding more virile pictures of Christ (TIME, Feb. 27). Praised in the Federal Council Bulletin for its "strength, charm, grace, courage," The Nazarene will be placed in the Hall of Religion at Chicago's World...
...down to the Moravian burying ground, in which the tombstones are all the same size and laid horizontally. Thousands of visitors attend, to hear the Bishop intone "The Lord is risen." The visitors reply, "The Lord is risen, indeed!" For 52 years the Salem service was conducted by Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler, Bishop of the Southern Province of the Moravian Church, until his death at 88 in 1931 (TIME...
...civil indictment and Methodist church trial of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway of Muncie, Ind. on a charge of attempting to rape an 18-year-old parishioner named Helen Huffman (TIME. Feb. 6, et seq.): acquittal in a circuit court jury trial. Ten farmers, a teacher and a salesman heard testimony by Miss Huffman, Mrs. Conway, a neighbor, and a woman who told how Miss Huffman had twice before accused men of attacking her. Mr. Conway appealed to his church on the strength of his civil acquittal, but the original church sentence-suspension from his pulpit for one year-was upheld...