Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Willard Sperry of the Divinity School and Chairman of the Board of Preachers presided at the dinner at which the Rev. Frederick Robertson Griffin, Minister of the First Church, Unitarlau, in Philladelphia and preacher at the services in the Appleton Chapel this week also spoke...
...June 2 as a day of peace prayers. ∧ In Chicago, Dr. Harold Washington Ruopp (non denominational) decided not to talk on war before his big congregation in Orchestra Hall (home of Chicago Symphony) last week. Each new headline, declared he, changes his mind. In Jefferson City, Mo., the Rev. A. B. Jackson (Presbyterian) admitted: "I realize the Allies are fighting our fight for us. But we ought not to enter the European...
...Portland, Ore., the Rev. Henry Guy Goodsell (Methodist): "We can't be neutral. ... I think we should preserve the status quo . . . I'm not the simon-pure pacifist I used...
...abhorrent thing," and "isolation" is "a dangerous anachronism." ∧ Proclaimed Dr. Colder Lawrence (Methodist) of Tulsa, Okla.: "I hold with Thomas Mann that 'Christianity and Democracy deal with the same human stuff' ... I believe we should go in the war." His fellow Tulsan, the Rev. Edward Henry Eckel Jr. (Episcopal) quoted Dean Inge: "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism when the wolf is of a different opinion." ∧ San Francisco clergymen held their fire until after Mother's Day, then let fly a volley. "If we don't fight...
...well-tried masterpiece was a re-enactment of Daniel in the lion's den. The Rev. Mr. Thompson whirled like a dervish, shadowboxed, raced with miniature fury up & down the platform, dropped to his knees to carry on in a high-pitched chant. Down front, the sinners whooped & hollered. On the stage sat five guest preachers. Pretending they were lions, Preacher Thompson poked them in the ribs. "Dan'l used a lion for a pillow," cried he, hurled himself on to their laps...