Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rev. D. W. Nix of Bogalusa, La., who had completed his theological training at Bilbo's expense, preached the sermon. He took his text from Second Timothy, fourth chapter, 7th and 8th verses: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith...
Systematic & Sinister? That was too much for the Most Rev. Richard J. Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston. Said he: "I feel bound . . . publicly to denounce the systematic and sinister anti-Catholicism of organized groups like the committee of ministers which last week returned to this country from Yugoslavia. . . . The damage is being done by men who-may God forgive them-are introduced as 'Reverend.' . . . We live in evil times when things can happen like the sell-out to Tito of the eight Protestant clergymen who were hand-picked to defend Tito's war on religion...
Divide & Weaken. The free-for-all was finally joined by somebody who really knows Yugoslavia, even though he has not been there for six years: the Rt. Rev. Iriney Georgevich, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Dalmatia, now living in exile in the U.S. Said he: "I was shocked. . . . I cannot understand how as servants of God [the seven Protestants] can accept so gladly an invitation from one of the most ruthless tyrannies the world ever has known. I can only ask these clergymen whether they would have thought it proper to accept an invitation from Hitler. . . . The tactics used by Tito...
...Howard Melish, associate rector of Brooklyn's Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, chairman of the American-Soviet Friendship Council and longtime friend of the Communist Party; Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, anti-Roman Catholic editor of The Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler; the Rev. Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., director of the Peoples' Institute of Applied Religion; George Walker Buckner Jr., editor of the World Call of the Disciples of Christ; Phillips P. Elliott, a Brooklyn Presbyterian pastor; Dr. Emory Stevens Bucke, editor of Methodism's Zions Herald; and septuagenarian Lutheran...
...addition, the convening Missouri Synod Lutherans harked back the hundred years and wondered at the Synod's present size compared with its mustard-seed beginnings. Exclaimed the Rev. Dr. Arthur Brunn of Brooklyn: "Some said the new Synod was too straitlaced, too hidebound to live in the land of the free...