Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Duchess of Elchingen, at No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, relict of Michel Ney. who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's ancestor was buried in the U. S. . . . This beautiful lady, who married a blood relation of Marshal Ney, is sadly mistaken. In 1902 Rev. W. A. Sadtier published a book, Under Two Captains in which he gave the biography of a general who fought under Marshal Ney, and later escaped execution, came to America, and was an honored Lutheran minister in the State of Indiana. He stated that Marshal Ney was not executed...
Last week Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, in his annual report as rector of Manhattan's rich old Trinity Parish, bluntly declared: "There is no part of the Church of Christ that has not failed lamentably in its witness and ministry in these recent years-the impotence of the Church is the worst failure." Remedy offered by this lean, ascetic-looking churchman: "I seriously believe the Christian Church would once again bring salvation to the world, and begin to save its own soul, if it had the wisdom and courage to declare a moratorium on preaching for a period...
Thus last week did Rev. Dr. Charles Jefferson, 75, high-minded honorary minister of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle, address the 56th annual General Conference for Christian Workers at East Northfield, Mass. To his 4,000 listeners in the largest of the gatherings of ministers, students and missionaries which every summer brings to East Northfield, Dr. Jefferson's words almost seemed designated ko echo a Northfieldite who did do mighty work: Dwight Lyman Moody, doughty founder of the General Conference...
...South Bend retreats are conducted on the University of Notre Dame campus by the Holy Cross Fathers who run that institution. Masses and other religious observances take place before Notre Dame's copy of the grotto at France's Lourdes. With big, 41-year-old Rev. Patrick Henry Dolan, C. S. C., as director, last week's retreat attracted 1,300 Catholics. As distinguished from retreatants elsewhere, they observed strict silence even at mealtimes, heard for the first time a nonreligious talk, by the University's Economics Professor Rev. William Augustine Bolger...
...Malvern" (Laymen's Weekend Retreat League) purchased a 106-acre estate for $60,000 from Philadelphia's rich Coxe family, now have a fulltime retreat master, Rev. Dr. James W. Gibbons, who conducts 45 sessions a year. President of the League is John J. Sullivan, austere heir to a traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework...