Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rev. Sidney Arthur Alexander, the Cathedral's venerable Canon and treasurer, broke the news that St. Paul's had shifted one-third of an inch during his 36 years in office. No man to miss such an item, the Daily Express's famed "Beachcomber" observed: "St. Paul's Cathedral is bitten by the fashionable bug of perpetual fidgeting, and is unable to remain still any longer. . . . It is due to crash into the Daily Express building in February 236,481 A.D. unless the Daily Express, feeling itself pursued, takes to its heels and crawls...
...drunkard is not "a moral and social outcast" - though many church people have taken that unchristian view, says the Rev. Alson J. Smith of St. Paul's Method ist Church, Brooklyn. An alcoholic is "someone who could be helped and [is] worth helping...
...modern American Church school is the funniest thing in the land-or it would be if it were not the saddest . . . [it] is a tragic fiasco." Thus the late Bishop Fiske (Episcopalian) of Central New York once wrote to The Rev. Kenneth R. Forbes...
Last week the Rev. Mr. Forbes, onetime chaplain of Philadelphia's City Mission, used the Bishop's words as ammunition in taking a few pot shots at those "pundits in religious education" who for 25 years "like an old phonograph record" have been expressing "great concern" over the "shocking ignorance" of Christian youth -and doing nothing about it. Chaplain Forbes had recommendations...
...Rev. Mr. Townsend notes that there is a difference between "the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the four Gospels," and "the practices of the organized Christian Church. These two have little in common besides their name." He traces the decline of the faith from the 4th Century, when it became a national religion under Constantine (who went forth "to slaughter his enemies inspired by the ecstatic vision of a blazing cross") through the Crusades (where "it had become firmly established that fire and rapine were acceptable means of propagating the faith") to the history of modern colonization...