Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cried Rev. Doss Kilgore, assistant pastor of a nearby Full Salvationist Mission, to a writhing, wailing group: "We want to snuggle up to the Lord tonight and look right into Heaven. He needs a band of people to do his will." When Shirley's rigid arms slowly rose up, the shirt-sleeved evangelist exclaimed: "It is a manifestation of God's power...
...Rev. Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Call Me Dan") Poling is world president of the biggest Protestant youth organization (Christian Endeavor), editor of the most influential U. S. church magazine (Christian Herald), director of the phil anthropic Penney Foundation, a brisk weekly radiorator and ringing champion of Youth. "Dan" Poling's parents were Oregon pioneers. He came early by his robust, gladsome Christianity. Aged 11, he perched on the rear axle of William Jennings Bryan's carriage as the Commoner, stumping Oregon, drove into his county. When Bryan finished his speech he leaned beneath his carriage, shook hands with...
...impatient to become a Daughter of Charity. At 14 she vowed herself to chastity. Her lingering death from tuberculosis was a summing up of all she knew and much that she felt only intuitively of Catholic belief. Marie Thèrèse Wang's biographer, Rev. Basil Stegmann of the Benedictine Order, lists eight cases which the Roman Catholic Church may or may not judge to be miracles supporting the Rose of China's candidacy for beatification. Among them: two cures (tuberculosis, cholera) ; one happy death; one escape from brigands; an instance in which someone received payment...
Henceforth vacant chaplaincies in Federal prisons will be filled by properly trained men chosen by the Federal Council and the National Council for the Clinical Training of Theological Students. Appointees will have college and seminary training. Last week the first appointee took over his job: Rev. Wayne L. Hunter, Presbyterian, at the U. S. Industrial Reformatory for Men, Chillicothe, Ohio...
...Cozzens does not make the usual formal disclaimer: that all his characters are fictitious. Even if he had, many an Episcopalian reader would have recognized at least two likenesses-Bishop William T. Manning, onetime Father Harvey Officer-may think they see in his hero a similarity to the late Rev. Ralph Pomeroy...