Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calumet, Mich, last week Rev. Joseph Alderic Paquet of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church declared that during mass he had unlocked the tabernacle on his altar, uncovered a ciborium to distribute Communion. To his amazement three fresh roses fell out, moistly spotted with what appeared to be blood. Father Paquet called the occurrence "mysterious" if not "miraculous...
Died. Right Rev. Dr. John McKim, 83, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary District of North Tokyo, Japan for 42 years; in Honolulu. When the disastrous Tokyo earthquake of 1923 destroyed most of his church buildings and equipment, he cabled to Manhattan headquarters the phrase now hallowed in mission circles: "All gone but faith...
Last Roman Catholic King of England was James II (1685-88). By oaths of accession, by laws of the realm, by popular tradition, no British Sovereign since has been permitted to become a Catholic. Yet last week in the New York Catholic News column of Rev. James Martin Gillis, famed Paulist preacher, appeared the following...
...heirs, has generally left company management pretty much to the Joneses. Founder James Laughlin was a good Presbyterian who served as first president of Western Theological Seminary and founded Pennsylvania College for Women. Grandson Irwin Boyle Laughlin was a career diplomat and onetime Ambassador to Spain. Philadelphia's Rev. Edward R. Laughlin is also a grandson. James Laughlin IV is the member of the Harvard Advocate board who was largely responsible for the ban placed on an issue of that magazine last autumn by Cambridge police. Great-Granddaughter Alice Denniston Laughlin is a stained-glass artist. And Board Chairman...
Kindly, scholarly Rev. Dr. Henry Hayes Sweets, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South), has not held a pulpit since 1904 when he became his Church's secretary of Christian Education & Ministerial Relief. On Sundays Moderator Sweets attends Highland Presbyterian Church in Louisville, where he notes that most of the worshippers are oldish, like himself (63). On this subject, which currently depresses many another minister, Dr. Sweets sermonized last week in Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock...