Word: revs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rev. Kenneth Macrae of Stornoway, Hebrides, was boiling mad. Mincing no words, he told the Edinburgh assembly of the fundamentalist Free Church of Scotland (the "Wee Frees") that the church should break relations with the Y.M.C.A. The Y, he had discovered, was condoning modernist doctrines and "worldly amusements," and had put out a scandalous booklet for servicemen. Told in the Huts. Without further ado, the shocked assembly passed the resolution. Next day, it learned that the objectionable booklet was about France and Gallipoli during World War I, and had been out of print for 25 years...
...Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 71, Britain's very "Red Dean" of Canterbury, was seized by high-spirited Russians as he emerged from a Moscow hotel on V-E day, got himself tossed high into the air. Said he shakily: "Thanks. Congratulations...
...Rev. Reginald Heber Gooden left his native California to take charge of a Protestant Episcopal parish in Cuba. Last week in Los Angeles, he was consecrated Bishop of the Panama Canal Zone-thereby became a multiple religious titleholder. He is the church's youngest bishop (35), its first born in California, its only bishop who is an active bishop's son (his father is Suffragan Bishop Robert B. Gooden of Los Angeles...
...most outstanding young man in Minneapolis for 1944" turned out to be blond, strapping (6 ft. 2 in.; 205 Ibs.) Rev. Reuben Youngdahl, 33. His outstanding job: in only seven years he converted Mount Olivet Lutheran Church from a debt-ridden institution of 200 members into a booming 2,500-member parish...
...conference itself was taken to task by two bishops, the Most Rev. Walter A. Foery (Roman Catholic) and the Rt. Rev. Malcolm E. Peabody (Episcopalian), for failing to open with prayer...