Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...churches; prominent among the decorations were the yellow and white colors of the papacy and nostalgic fleurs-de-lis. Bells of 27 Roman Catholic churches pealed a welcome. From behind grey clouds the sun burst forth, as the car bearing the tall, 42-year-old archbishop-designate, the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, drove through the crowded streets. Women pushed to the car's side, held up their children for a blessing. Msgr. Roy had arrived for his consecration as the eleventh archbishop of the Dominion's oldest diocese...
...Journal's strong words were not the first. Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, in a broadside entitled A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, an eminent churchman, the Rev. Jeremy Collier inveighed against the hero of Love for Love: "He is a prodigal debauchee, unnatural, and profane, obscene, saucy, and undutiful; and yet this libertine is crowned for the man of merit, has his wishes thrown into his lap. . . ." Congreve replied nervously, and not altogether convincingly, that he was doing a useful social work in painting "the vices and follies of human...
Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at First Church (Congregational), Cambridge, with Rev. John Leamon reading the service...
...that Gandhi is in a real sense a spiritual child of New England. In the very first chapter of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, which Gandhi read with such avidity in his South African days, Tolstoy refers to ... The Catechism of Non-Resistance, written by the Rev. Adin Ballou (1803-1890), who more than 100 years ago founded and became the first president of Hopedale (Socialist) Community in Hopedale, Mass. . . . Gandhi's "passive resistance" is just Ballou's "nonresistance" under another name. LEWIS O. HARTMAN Resident Bishop Methodist Church Boston...
Text. In Milwaukee, the enterprising Rev. John Lewis failed to get the new church he wanted, instead got one to five years in prison for burning down...