Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When church circles were bemoaning the morals of the speakeasy generation, the Rev. Daniel Alfred Poling used to say, "Stop slandering youth!" Strapping (6 ft. 1 in.), 62-year-old Dan Poling still has a good word for the younger generation. This week, as keynote speaker, he opened the San Francisco convention of some 5,000 delegates of the Christian Endeavor Union, the flourishing, 4,000,000-member youth organization which he has headed for the past 22 years...
...Including governors of seven states, 17 university presidents, Henry L. Stimson, Harold Stassen, Jim Farley, Joseph C. Grew, Banker A. P. Giannini, Author John P. Marquand, the Right Rev. William T. Manning (retired Episcopal Bishop of New York), ex-G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (see PRESS), and Historian James Truslow Adams...
...money for repairs, the First Presbyterian Church of Bluffton, Ohio thought up a more specific use for the parable. One way to collect the repair money, suggested Layman Eugene Benroth, might be by re-enacting the parable. One day last February, after borrowing 200 ten-dollar "talents," the Rev. E. N. Bigelow distributed them among his congregation...
Even though 20 First Presbyterian talents had not yet been heard from (and might perhaps be hidden in the earth), there was no weeping or gnashing of teeth in Bluffton; the Rev. Mr. Bigelow, less stern than the Biblical lord, had asked that the returns be made anonymously...
Last week an answer came from a high quarter: England's second-ranking prelate, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. Wrote the 72-year-old Archbishop in his new book, The Claims of the Church of England: There is at present a "tendency towards totalitarianism in the State. The State increasingly exercises control over every department of the life of the community. It is not likely that the Church will escape from this movement. Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible...