Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a merger was, almost miraculously, realized. In Seattle the Congregational and Christian Churches met in joint convention, consummated a long-planned union. Representing 6,670 congregations and 3,000,000 church constituents, the new church will be called "Congregational and Christian." It will have two moderators. Rev. Dr. Carl Safford Patton, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, was elected by the Congregationalists to succeed Rev. Dr. Fred B. Smith. Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, syndicated advice-giver, was nominated but had his name withdrawn. Christian President, too ill to attend the Convention...
Married. Sarah Stires Wood, daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; and James Roland Addington, Chicago socialite; in Highland Park, Ill., by the Rev. Ernest M. Stires. Bishop of Long Island, uncle of the bride...
...course at any time during the year: there is no graduation. But at the end of the term the "Head Beak" (beak = master) delivers a Leaving Address and presents each graduate with a Leaving Book. Head Beak of Eton, and perhaps Head Beak of all British Beaks, is Rev...
Those who would praise Samuel Mather learn that he dislikes full blown phrases. Rev. James De Long Williamson, his old friend, last week said simply: "Samuel Mather, today we dedicate to the service of mankind an institution that reflects your vision, devotion, sacrifice and generosity." The brief response of Mr. Mather, a religious Episcopalian: "I am thankful for the many blessings that have come to me and for the friends who stood loyally behind me through life...
...Dallas, Rev. B. P. Brown, 30, part-time preacher and part-time baggage clerk, was found by police hanging, gagged and nude, by a rope from a chandelier over the pulpit in his church. For two days he repeated a shocking story of attempted lynching by four "enemies." Then he confessed: he had intended suicide, changed his mind...