Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...REV.) TOM FUHR New York City...
...Smyrna, Ga., the Rev. George Almiran Gaines, 34, announced that he was in the third week of a four-week fast. He hoped to attract attention to his campaign for $9,000 to finish making the down payment on a $66,000 mansion to be used as an orphanage. The mansion was once owned by former movie star Colleen Moore. Said Mr. Gaines: "I have fasted many times before. I have never fasted for anything that God has not given...
...Brooklyn, St. Luke's German Evangelical Reformed Church was about to move to new quarters. But before moving, the Rev. Benney Benson "deconsecrated" the old building with a service of his own devising (among other things, he threw a bottle of ink at an effigy of the devil). Reason: the athletic club which had bought the building planned to set up a bar on the premises...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson, 83, sharp-tongued onetime (1920-39) Anglican Bishop of Durham, England; near Ipswich, England. One of the first British critics of the Nazis and their antiSemitism, Bishop Henson made many enemies with his scathing denunciations of the Oxford Group, Edward VIII's marriage, the U.S. ("a conspicuous illustration of the folly of neglecting the moral factor in life"), and the U.S.S.R. "with its hideous doctrine of mechanized humanity...
Magnanimity Gone? Some of the views were pessimistic. Said stocky, grey-haired Rev. Paul Hutchinson, editor of the Christian Century: "Men as individuals give the impression of being in almost complete mental and moral-and hence in physical-confusion. For the past 50 years they have not known for what they were dying; today they do not know for what they are living...