Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handbills littered the floor and tables, and two purposeful young women pounded energetically on typewriters. But the bald, cheerful man who presided over this well-ordered confusion last week wore a clerical collar. From his command post in an old brownstone mansion near London's Victoria Station, the Rev. Frank Cecil Tyler was directing the "Mission to London"-the biggest evangelical drive the Church of England had ever held in a single diocese...
About a year ago the Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. John William Charles Wand, decided that the time had come to do something drastic about British apathy toward the Anglican Church. The man he chose to organize the job was energetic Frank Tyler, 40, who had been parish priest in two of London's toughest, poorest suburbs. To labor in his teeming new vineyard, Tyler has 15,000 volunteer laymen missionaries. They are plastering London's walls with 55,000 posters, passing out a million handbills, selling 100,000 copies of a picture magazine, peddling Bibles...
...drive is to get Londoners to turn out for eight consecutive nights of revival meetings to be held in every local parish, beginning next week. Volunteers are assigned to 120 centers, each in charge of a specially trained priest. A typical center director is 36-year-old Rev. George Edmund Reindorp, whose parish includes some of the poorest and some of the most fashionable, sections of Westminster. Reindorp instructs his volunteer door-to-door canvassers always to knock three times-"once for the Father, once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost." He explained last week: "Generally...
...this evening's session, C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will join Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, in discussing changes in American attitudes and policies since the war. Two other speakers will be the Rev. Professor Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological Seminary and Colston E. Warne, professor of Economics at Amherst...
Baccalaureate Services, at which Rev. Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School will speak, will be held in Memorial Church Sunday afternoon, June 20, immediately after the Harvard exercises. Monday has been left open for Class Night and song rehearsals...