Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons which I have carefully considered and to my mind warrant the conclusions I have reached, I make the following changes in my will: If the Right Rev. William T. Manning . . . shall survive me, I delete the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in each & every case where it appears and substitute for it in each case St. Luke's Hospital...
...approving Birth Control (TIME, March 30, 1931). Though the report was signed by John Abner Marquis, onetime (1916) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., many Presbyterians heartily disapproved. Last week the Presbyterian General Assembly met in Denver with Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and a corps of Fundamentalists on the warpath. Declaring that full time should be taken to consider "the weighty question of whether we wish to continue participation" in the Federal Council, Fundamentalist Griffiths opened the fight by trying to prevent approval of a $14,500 appropriation...
When the Diocese of New York chose a high churchman to be bishop eleven years ago many a low church Episcopalian was annoyed, including one of the Cathedral's most regular worshippers, an elderly, strong-willed lady named Laura Shannon. But Very Rev. Howard Chandler Robbins remained as dean, and so when Miss Shannon made her will in 1924 she left the Cathedral $937,500. Then dissension arose at St. John's, culminating in the resignation three years ago of Dean Robbins (TIME, Jan. 14 & Nov. 4, 1929). Last week when Miss Shannon's will was read...
...Macon St., took in the homeless, fed them, clothed them, black & white. His disciples increased, his house grew, followers came on foot, in limousines, by the busload. Sayville's Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance forbidding parking for more than 30 minutes in Macon Street. Rev. Major J. Divine, the bald little Negro, provided free parking space on all the land surrounding the three big houses into which had spread his thriving cult of '"Heaven...
Last week, Sayville's patience exhausted, Rev. Major J. Divine was on trial before Supreme Court Justice Lewis J. Smith in Mineola. Two white believers, Helen Faust, Preacher Divine's 26-year-old secretary, and one James Maynard Matthews, testified that they believed the Father was God Himself. Said Believer Matthews: "I believe he is the perfected expression of God. I believe Heaven sends him his money direct." Testified Eva Connelly, nonbeliever: "Some of Divine's visitors shouted at me: 'Hello, Blondie.' And when I telephoned him to ask him to stop the noise...