Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rev. Frank S. Persons II, Bastrop, La.: Church people "are worshipers of archaic patterns of thought. We have erected temples of the mind and enthroned on their altars certain banded-down ideas which we are as afraid to displace as any African tribesman his equally homemade and static wooden gods...
...Rev. Eugene Smathers, Big Lick, Tenn.: "The greatest weakness of the church is its institutional self-centeredness. [By] seeking to save its own life instead of losing its life in the service of men, it is gradually becoming impotent...
Reported Missing. The Rev. William T. Cummings, 42, cool, slender Army chaplain credited with minting the phrase, "There are no atheists in foxholes," hero of a 1942 Bataan hospital bombing during which he calmed patients with prayer despite his own shrapnel-broken arm; in the sinking of a Japanese prison ship by a U.S. submarine last December...
...Rev. Mr. Dodgson loved romance - but all he did about it was write a sad little satire about a young man who, on seeing a sign reading "Shop of Romance-ment," joyfully became an apprentice -only to find that the sign really read "Shop of Roman Cement." He loved the theater - but when he met beautiful Actress Irene Vanbrugh he could think of nothing to talk about but the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. Of dazzling Actress Ellen Terry he made what was probably the most passionate declaration of his life: "I can imagine no more delightful...
...face with what Author Lennon believes was the other major problem of his life - his religious beliefs. To be a rebel in Victorian England required unusual boldness, and while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would take a daily walk of 20 miles at top speed...