Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church, had a solution for traffic tie-ups: "Stop for a moment of prayer when the light changes at an intersection instead of nervously honking [your] horn...
...vowed to get even with the men of God ever since an overzealous missionary had locked his relatives in a church which had then accidentally burned down before anyone could unlock the doors. So one day in 1865, when Kereopa happened on the Rev. Carl Volkner in a lonely spot, he killed him, taking care to eat the dead man's eyes so the ghost would not stare at him. The New Zealand Government promptly offered a ?1,000 reward for the murderer, and several years later another Maori chief named Wari Te Whiu turned Kereopa...
Sparkplug of Youth Films is muscular, ash-blond Rev. Borland P. Dryer, 36, a boy evangelist grown up, who spent his youth traveling with such famous spellbinders as Billy Sunday and Uldine Utley, later studied at several universities. One day Dryer faced the fact that more people were going to movie houses than to churches. "We were missing the boat," he says. "The visual image was here to stay...
These words, spoken by the disciples at Emmaus, rang in the mind of the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte. All his life long the gentle English Methodist had hoped to leave something behind him to testify to the glory of God. Though his books of poems* were well enough received, Lyte feared that they would not long survive him. In 1847, when he was 54, he felt that his life was almost over. Consumption and asthma, from which he had suffered for more than half his years, would not leave him much more time...
Died. The Most Rev. John Joseph Cantwell, 72, first Archbishop of Los Angeles (the archbishopric was created in 1936); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. Brawny, Irish-born Cantwell was credited with being the founding father of the potent Legion of Decency...