Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Hawaiian-American Buddhist Association, the Young Men's and Young Women's Buddhist Associations (similar to Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. but more active in missionizing). One of the announced purposes of the convention was to promote Buddhist unity. Present also were Rev. Tansai Terakawa, Stanford graduate, of Stockton, Calif.; Francis Geske of Oakland; and Bishop Kenju Masayuma, honorary chairman of the convention, No. 1 Buddhist of the group by virtue of being chairman of the Japanese-North American Buddhist Federation. Wearing the "kesa" (embroidered collar) of his rank, he presided at "Koshukwai...
Mental hygiene interests the Protestant Episcopal Church. A chief feature of the Summer Conference for Church Workers of the Middle West, in session last week at Racine, Wis., was a course in psychiatry by Rev. Herbert Ralph Higgins of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit, who explained: "If the church does not move forward to newer fields of knowledge, she cannot complain if medicine takes them over...
...funerals. Lately, a Christian group banned Sunday funerals, but not with the purpose of depriving any one of Sunday pleasures. For three years the Ministerial Association of Lincoln, Neb. has worked for a city ordinance prohibiting Sunday funerals. The Lincoln City Council unanimously approved an ordinance drafted by Methodist Rev. Walter Aitken, Baptist Rev. C. H. Walcott, and G. T. Slavery of the United Brethren. Lincoln ministers feel they are busy enough with Sunday services, baptisms, christenings, church-meetings, vespers, Sunday schools, Bible classes. The ordinance takes effect next week...
...Holy See last week gave to the Roman Catholic diocese of Salt Lake, Utah a new bishop, Rev. James E. Kearney, 48, pastor-organizer in 1928 of the Church of St. Francis Xavier in The Bronx. Iowa-born, Bishop-elect Kearney studied at Teachers College in Manhattan and Catholic University in Washington. He is diocesan superintendent of Bronx schools, lecturer at Good Counsel College in White Plains. In Utah he will succeed another onetime Bronx pastor, Most Rev. John Joseph Mitty, 48, who was appointed last February to be Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco (TIME...
Other provers of the fabulous: Rev Mark L. Voyles of Little Rock, Ark. who can give the chapter and verse number of any scriptural quotation read to him and recite the preceding and succeeding verses; W. W. Pitman of Wharton, Tex. who disarmed a man by shooting a bullet into one of the chambers of his gun; Edward W. Pulick of College Point, N. Y. who was struck by lightning, left uninjured save for singed hair, a burnt straw hat; Robert F. Lancaster of South Whitley, Ind. whose family of 58 has not had a death in 83 years...